Oral history interview with Albert W. Tucker, 1984 July 13.

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Oral history interview with Albert W. Tucker, 1984 July 13.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63283817

Tucker begins by talking about the professors, including assistant and associate professors, at Princeton in 1930. He tells most about James Alexander, Alonzo Church, Luther Eisenhart, Solomon Lefschetz, and H. P. Robertson. Other faculty members Tucker talks about at some length are Einar Hille, Morris Knebelman, T. Y. Thomas, and Oswald Veblen.

Transcript : 23 p.

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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