Oral history interview with Albert W. Tucker, 1984 Apr. 12.

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Oral history interview with Albert W. Tucker, 1984 Apr. 12.

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Tucker talks about admission to the graduate program in mathematics, then about what was expected of the graduate students, including language requirements and the preliminary examination for the doctorate (usually taken in the second year of graduate study). Tucker describes how a graduate student would select a thesis topic and mentions the unusual thesis written by Marvin Minsky. Tucker then discusses the course, seminars, and talks that took place in Fine Hall. He also talks about the teaching of undergraduates, including the writing, by each mathematics major, of a "junior paper" and a "senior thesis."

Transcript : 24 p.

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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