Oral history interview with Banesh Hoffmann, 1984 Oct. 13.

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Oral history interview with Banesh Hoffmann, 1984 Oct. 13.

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Hoffmann tells how he came to Princeton from Oxford in 1929 as a graduate student and research assistant to Oswald Veblen. Hoffmann and Tucker discuss Veblen as a teacher and as a researcher. Other people discussed are: Edward Condon, T. Y. Thomas, John von Neumann, H. P. Robertson, and M. H. A. Newman. Hoffman talks about his Ph.D. thesis. Tucker and Hoffmann discuss Fine Hall and compare the atmosphere of the mathematics department at Oxford with that at Princeton. Hoffmann tells of working three years at Rochester after completing his Ph.D. and then returning to Princeton to become Albert Einstein's research assistant.

Transcript : 13 p.

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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