Oral history interview with R. E. Greenwood, 1984 July 12.

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Oral history interview with R. E. Greenwood, 1984 July 12.

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Greenwood came to Princeton in 1936 to study mathematical physics, but soon switched to mathematics. He tells about life at the Graduate School, about courses, and about the two schools of topology (Princeton's algebraic and combinatorial topology and Texas's point-set topology). Greenwood describes Salomon Bochner, with whom he did his thesis, and talks about Alan Turing, Maurice Pryce, and others.

Transcript : 9 p.

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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