Oral history interview with Herman Heine Goldstine, 1977 March 14.

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Oral history interview with Herman Heine Goldstine, 1977 March 14.

Family background; graduate study in mathematics at University of Chicago in the 1930s under Gilbert A. Bliss, Marsten Morse and Eliakim Hastings Moore; faculty position at the University of Michigan, 1939-1948; war work at the Ballistics Research Laboratory and at the Moore School of Electrical Engineering in Philadelphia; ENIAC and counter technology; John Von Neumann's involvement with computers at Princeton's Institute of Advanced Study; mathematics after World War II. Also prominently mentioned are: Paul N. Gillon, T. H. Hildebrandt, Martin Schwarzschild; Aberdeen Proving Ground, Ballistics Research Laboratory, and University of Pennsylvania.

Transcript, 33 pp.

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