Reminiscence of R. E. Greenwood, 1984 Sept. 5.

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Reminiscence of R. E. Greenwood, 1984 Sept. 5.

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Greenwood's written addition to his oral history interview (PMC 16) describes graduate student life at Princeton in the late 1930s, his fellow graduate students, their activities (especially at the Graduate College), and the professors (Luther Eisenhart, Paul Erdos, Witold Hurecwicz, and others). Greenwood writes about the topology seminars at Princeton and about his oral examination (with Solomon Lefschetz) for his Ph.D. Finally, Greenwood describes the H. Petard spoof, a tongue-in-cheek article published in the American Mathematical Monthly in 1938.

Transcript : 7 p.

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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Princeton University. Department of Mathematics.

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The 1930s saw the flowering of a unique mathematical community at Princeton University, sparked by the construction of a luxurious new building Fine Hall (now Jones Hall) designed to facilitate a real community of mathematicians engaged in research and closely linked with mathematical physicists in the attached Palmer physics laboratory. This community was unlike any other in America before that time and perhaps afterwards, and had important consequences for American mathematics. With the planni...

Greenwood, R. E.

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Robert E. Greenwood (1911-1993) was a member of the Department of Mathematics, University of Texas at Austin, working in combinatorial analysis, numerical analysis, probability, and history of mathematics. From the description of Greenwood, Robert E., Papers, 1881-1999. (University of Texas Libraries). WorldCat record id: 19293054 Mathematician. From the description of Reminiscence of R. E. Greenwood, 1984 Sept. 5. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat...