Oral history interview with Ernst Snapper, 1984 June 7.

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Oral history interview with Ernst Snapper, 1984 June 7.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63297198

Snapper tells of his coming to Princeton in 1938 and talks about Solomon Lefschetz, J. H. M. Wedderburn, and other faculty members. Snapper tells an anecdote about Albert Einstein and one about Guido Fubini-Ghiron.

Transcript : 5 p.

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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