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Brown, George W. and Mood, Alexander M. [Transcript no. 3], 1984 July 25

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Collection Overview

Collection Description & Creator Information

Scope and Contents

Brown and Mood explain why they chose to go to Princeton for graduate work and how they came to work for Sam Wilks. They give two different pictures of the social life of graduate students: Mood was married and his wife took part in Wyman Club activities; Brown was single and lived at the Graduate College. They talk about courses and faculty members—Albert Einstein, Kurt G�del, Paul Erdos, and others—and about the difficulties of getting work having just earned a Ph.D. in statistics.

Arrangement

Audio recordings and project information are followed by an alphabetical listing of interview transcripts.

Collection History

Appraisal

No information on appraisal is available.

Processing Information

This collection was updated by Lynn Durgin in 2015, with processing assistance from Carlos Sotelo, Class of 2017. At this time, content from a website titled "The Princeton Mathematics Community in the 1930s: An Oral-History Project" (created in 1999-2000 by Robert T. Jantzen '74, Professor of Mathematical Sciences Villanova University) was migrated to the finding aid, and transcripts were digitized and linked to the finding aid.

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Credit this material:

Brown, George W. and Mood, Alexander M. [Transcript no. 3]; Department of Mathematics Oral History Project records, AC057, Princeton University Archives, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library

Location:
Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library
Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library
65 Olden Street
Princeton, NJ 08540, USA
(609) 258-6345
Storage Note:
  • Mudd Manuscript Library (mudd): Box 2

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Other Finding Aids

A website titled "The Princeton Mathematics Community in the 1930s: An Oral-History Project" that was created to provide online access to the transcripts has been preserved by the Internet Archive and is available at https://web.archive.org/web/20131024065717/http://www.princeton.edu/~mudd/finding_aids/mathoral/pm02.htm.

An index to names of individuals that are mentioned in the transcripts is available here: Index of Names.

Bibliography

Portions of the organizational history were borrowed from the achived website "The Princeton Mathematics Community in the 1930s" created by Robert Jantzen in 1999; this site is available in Series 2 of this finding aid.

Names:
Institute for advanced study Princeton, N.J.
Princeton University
Alexander, James W., 1888-1971
Bochner, S. (Salomon), 1899-1982
Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955.
Eisenhart, Luther Pfahler, 1876-1965 -- Correspondence.
Lefschetz, Solomon, 1884-1972
Morse, Marston, 1892-1977
Veblen, Oswald, 1880-1960
Von Neumann, John, 1903-1957.
Weyl, Hermann, 1885-1955.