Oral history interview with Alfred Leon Foster, Ilse Foster, D. H. Lehmer, Emma Trotskaia Lehmer, and Frances Morrey, 1984 May 18.

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Oral history interview with Alfred Leon Foster, Ilse Foster, D. H. Lehmer, Emma Trotskaia Lehmer, and Frances Morrey, 1984 May 18.

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Alfred Foster talks about how he came to do his graduate work at Princeton, where he worked under Oswald Veblen and Alonzo Church, and about getting a job (at Berkeley, through the mediation of Jules Hildebrandt) after the completion of his Ph.D. The Lehmers talk about the social life in Princeton in the 1930s, about economic conditions, and about the Veblens (who did much to promote social contact among the mathematicians and their families). Tucker, the Fosters, and Morrey contribute their recollections concerning these matters. Tucker describes Einstein's arrival in Princeton and talks about the period (1931-1932) when he (Tucker) was in charge of providing for afternoon tea at Fine Hall.

Transcript : 15 p.

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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