Brown University Dept. of Mathematics meeting minutes, 1915-1939. [1915-1939]

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Brown University Dept. of Mathematics meeting minutes, 1915-1939. [1915-1939]

This collection consists of minutes of meetings held by the Brown University Department of Mathematics during the years 1915-1922 and 1930-1939. The minutes include discussions regarding the department's policies and rules as well as information related to student affairs, curriculum development, faculty appointments, fellowships, examinations, the Mathematics Club and the honor list. The collection also includes department memorandum completed by the department chairman Roland G.D. Richardson. The department secretary was responsible for completing the meeting minutes. Clinton Currier was the department secretary during the years 1915 to 1923 followed by Clarence Raymond Adams in 1924.

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Brown University. Dept. of Mathematics.

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Brown University.

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In 1917 the university established the Brown War Records Bureau, whose intention was to "collect and preserve a record of all Brown men who are serving in the present war". Brown faculty, students and alumni who were in the military were asked to fill out a small card called "Are you in the war?" and to send original letters, clippings or photographs which "have any bearing on the service of Brown men in the war." This collection is partly a result of that effort. From the guide to t...

Richardson, R. G. D. (Roland George Dwight), 1878-1949

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Professor of Mathematics at Brown University. At different times vice-president and secretary of the American Mathematical Society. From the description of Lectures on the calculus of variations, 1923-1924. (Brown University). WorldCat record id: 122639545 ...