Oral history interview with John G. Kemeny, 1984 June 7.

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Oral history interview with John G. Kemeny, 1984 June 7.

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Kemeny entered Princeton as an undergraduate in February 1943. He describes undergraduate mathematics courses, and he talks about Fine Hall, fellow students(including Stan Ulam), and about contacts between the University's mathematics dept. and the School of Mathematics of the Institute for Advanced Study. Kemeny talks about John von Neumann and, at some length, about Kurt Gòˆdel, and Tucker talks about Alan Turing. Kemeny tells how he became interested in computing.

Transcript : 11 p.

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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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...

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