Oral history interview with Deane Montgomery, 1985 Mar. 13.

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Oral history interview with Deane Montgomery, 1985 Mar. 13.

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Montgomery, after completing his Ph.D. at the University of Iowa, spent a year at Harvard and then a year (1934-35) at Princeton. During World War II he returned to Princeton; he taught Army students and worked for a year with John von Neumann. In 1948 Montgomery became a permanent member, in 1951 a professor, of the Institute for Advanced Study. Montgomery describes the atmosphere at Princeton, and Tucker and Montgomery talk at length about Oswald Veblen, who played a large role in the building up of the mathematics department at the university and the main role in the establishing of the School of Mathematics at the Institute. Montgomery discusses the beginnings of the Institute.

Transcript : 16 p.

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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