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Oral history interview with Albert W. Tucker

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  • "Tucker describes mathematics in Princeton in the late 1930s and during the years of World War II. Topics include: personnel and personnel changes at the Princeton University Mathematics Department and the Institute for Advanced Study School of Mathematics; Solomon Lefschetz as the leader of the mathematical research program at the university; the later careers of James Alexander and Oswald Veblen; active mathematical research areas at Princeton; the move of the Institute for Advanced Study to Flud Hall in 1939; the impact of the physical separation of the Institute and university mathematics programs; teaching of mathematics to military personnel during the war;"

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  • "Oral history interview with Albert W. Tucker"