Reminiscence of John Giese, 1984 Oct. 13.

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Reminiscence of John Giese, 1984 Oct. 13.

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Giese relates how he came to Princeton as a graduate student and how, in a course on Riemannian geometry taught by Luther Eisenhart, he found a thesis topic. Giese talks about his part-time work when he was a graduate student--clerical work for the Annals of Mathematics and teaching--about life at the Graduate College, about fellow graduate students (especially D. Ransom Whitney), and about Paul Erdos.

Transcript : 7 p.

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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