Discussion with George W. Brown and Alexander M. Mood, 1984 July 25.

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Discussion with George W. Brown and Alexander M. Mood, 1984 July 25.

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Brown and Mood explain why they choose to go to Princeton for graduate work and how they came to work for Sam Wilks. They give two different pictures of the social life of graduate students: Mood was married and his wife took part in the Wyman Club activities; Brown was single and lived at the Graduate College. They talk about courses and faculty members--Albert Einstein, Kurt Gödel, Paul Erdos, and others--and about the difficulties of getting work having just earned a Ph.D. in statistics.

Transcript : 16 p.

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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