Oral history interview with S. Wylie, 1985 June 12.

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Oral history interview with S. Wylie, 1985 June 12.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63283821

Wylie describes his background (his father was an Oxford don) and his education (Winchester, Oxford, and Princeton). He tells of the graduate program in mathematics at Princeton, and he talks about many faculty members including Tracy Thomas, J. H. M. Wedderburn, Solomon Lefschetz, James Alexander, and especially Albert Tucker. Wylie tells of some of the occurences at the Graduate College and in the common room of Fine Hall.

Transcript : 17 p.

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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Tucker, Albert W. (Albert William), 1905-1995

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