Albert William Tucker Papers 1946-1983

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Albert William Tucker Papers 1946-1983

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Interview with Princetonmathematician Albert W. Tucker from 1979 and 1982 with reprints and photocopiesof papers by and about Tucker and mathematics at PrincetonUniversity.

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Archives of American Mathematics, Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin

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Tucker, Albert W. (Albert William), 1905-1995

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Professor of mathematics at Princeton University. From the description of Oral history interview with Albert W. Tucker, 1986 May 8. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 63306961 Mathematician. From the description of Oral history interview with Albert W. Tucker, 1984 Apr. 10. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 63297202 From the description of Oral history interview with Albert W. Tucker, 1984 Oct. 9. (Unive...

Princeton University. Department of Mathematics.

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The 1930s saw the flowering of a unique mathematical community at Princeton University, sparked by the construction of a luxurious new building Fine Hall (now Jones Hall) designed to facilitate a real community of mathematicians engaged in research and closely linked with mathematical physicists in the attached Palmer physics laboratory. This community was unlike any other in America before that time and perhaps afterwards, and had important consequences for American mathematics. With the planni...