Meyer Dwass (1923-1996) Papers 1953-1996

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Meyer Dwass (1923-1996) Papers 1953-1996

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The Meyer Dwass Papers fill 2 boxes and span the years 1953 to 1996. The bulk of the papers consist of his teaching and research notes as well as offprints of his journal publications; a small amount of personal material is included. The papers fall into six subseries: biographical, correspondence, university notes, teaching, research, and publications.

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Dwass, Meyer

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Meyer Dwass was born on April 9, 1923 in New Haven, Connecticut. He served in the European Theater of Operations with the US Army from 1943 to 1946. Awarded a B.A. from George Washington University in 1948, he received his M.A. from Columbia University the next year and his Ph.D. in 1952 from the University of North Carolina. He married Shirley Labowitz in 1949 and they eventually had four children: Golda, Emily, Michael, and Claudia. Dwass, a mathematical statistician interested in...

Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.). Department of Mathematics

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Mathematics at Northwestern University has been taught since the University itself first offered classes. One of the University's three original faculty members appointed in 1854 was Henry S. Noyes, professor of mathematics. Noyes held major responsibility for mathematics instruction at Northwestern until 1871 when Julius F. Kellogg took over the department chairmanship. Kellogg held this position until his death in 1894. During the University's early years, the mathematics curricul...