Wilfred Kaplan papers 1936-2002

Kaplan, Wilfred, 1915-....

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Kaplan earned his Harvard AB in 1935, his AM in 1936, and his PhD in 1939. From the description of A dissertation on quadratic residues / by Wilfred Kaplan. c1936. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 228511776 Professor of mathematics at the University of Michigan, officer and long-time member of the American Association of University Professors, especially its University of Michigan chapter. From the description of Wilfred Kaplan papers, 1958-2000. (Univer...

University of Michigan.

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Outside of museum holdings, no comprehensive survey and inventory of campus artwork had been attempted since 1937. With support from the Michigan Commission on Art in Public Places, 1,076 items were inventoried during 1988-1990. Additional inventory work was undertaken in 1997-1998 for risk management purposed, but generated little new information. From the description of Inventory of University of Michigan-owned art, 1988-1990, 1997-1998. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id...

Kaplan, Wilfred

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Wilfred Kaplan, professor of mathematics at the University of Michigan from 1940 to 1986, was born November 28, 1915 in Boston Massachusetts to Jacob and Anne Kaplan. He attended Harvard University, where he completed his A.B. Degree in 1936 and his Ph.D. degree in mathematics in 1939. Kaplan earned a Rogers Traveling Fellowship from Harvard University to study Mathematics in Europe during the 1936-1937 school terms. At ETH Zurich, in Zurich, Switzerland, he met Ida Roettinger in a ...

University of Michigan. Department of Mathematics.

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The Department of Mathematics dates back to 1841, when formal instruction began at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Mathematics and science was taught by the Rev. George P. Williams (1841-1875).* The curriculum during the early years covered algebra, geometry, trigonometry, analytical geometry and calculus. In 1863 Williams became professor of physics, and Edward Olney (1863-1887) became professor of mathematics. Course offerings gradually expanded as the mathematics faculty...

Kaplan, Ida Roettinger, 1913-

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American Association of University Professors. University of Michigan Chapter.

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The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) was founded in 1915 to defend faculty rights, especially academic freedom and tenure. The AAUP protects professors from arbitrary dismissal and harassment and assures due process when a professor is charged with incompetence or moral turpitude, the two most common grounds for dismissal. The University of Michigan Chapter of the AAUP, evidently formed in the mid-1920s, defends the rights of the faculty of the University of Mich...