Oral history interview with Robert J. Walker, 1984 July 12.

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Oral history interview with Robert J. Walker, 1984 July 12.

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Walker tells about coming from Carnegie-Tech (now Carnegie Mellon) to Princeton in 1930 to begin graduate work. He describes courses he took and the atmosphere of Fine Hall. Tucker and Walker talk for some time about fellow graduate students at the time, including John Vanderslice and Nathan Jacobson. Walker talks about his thesis research in algebraic geometry with Solomon Lefschetz, and about Harold Bohr, Paul Alexandroff, and P. A. M. Dirac.

Transcript : 12 p.

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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