Oral history interview with Merrill Flood, 1984 May 14.

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Oral history interview with Merrill Flood, 1984 May 14.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63309528

Flood describes his coming to Princeton in 1931 after earning a master's degree in number theory at the University of Nebraska. Flood talks about faculty members: he was assistant to Luther Eisenhart, he took courses from James Alexander and H. P. Robertson, he worked under J. H. M. Wedderburn for his Ph.D. Flood tells of graduate student life, including poker playing, and how he came to switch to applied mathematics after completing his Ph.D.

Transcript : 23 p.

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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SNAC Resource ID: 7886061

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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