Oral history interview with Banesh Hoffmann, 1984 October 13.

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Oral history interview with Banesh Hoffmann, 1984 October 13.

Hoffmann arrives at Princeton from University of Oxford in 1929; graduate student and research assistant to Oswald Veblen; Veblen as teacher and researcher; Ph.D. thesis; Fine Hall; comparison of mathematics departments at Oxford and Princeton. Three years at Rochester after completing Ph.D.; returns to Princeton to become Albert Einstein's research assistant. Also prominently mentioned are: Edward Condon, H. P. Robertson, Max Newman, John Von Neumann; and Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton).

Transcript, 13 pp.

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