Mathematics
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
Chester Ittner Bliss papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 1165
Overview:
The Chester Ittner Bliss Papers comprise writings and research materials, primarily in the field of biometry. The papers also include lecture notes, committee files, and printed matter.
Dates:
1885-1998, bulk 1918-1976
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Chester Ittner Bliss papers
Hermann Broch archive
Collection
Call Number: YCGL MSS 1
Overview:
The Hermann Broch Archive contains correspondence; manuscripts of books, plays, poems, articles and essays, book reviews, and short stories; writings of others; personal papers; photographs; and videocassettes.
Dates:
1872-1990s, bulk 1930-1951
George Frederick Gundelfinger papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 693
Overview:
The papers consist of correspondence, publications of The New Fraternity, and other books, pamphlets, and unpublished writings of George Frederick Gundelfinger who made a lifetime crusade of sending his publications and moral admonitions to Yale University. Yale's suit against him in 1939 for sending obscenity through the mail is documented by trial transcripts. Also in the papers are photographs, newspaper clippings, printed matter, and books on mathematics. There is also an edited diary...
Dates:
1891-1969
Natural Science manuscripts collection
Collection
Call Number: MS 583
Overview:
An artificial collection of papers of Yale faculty members and other individuals active in the academic fields of astronomy, biology, botany, geology, mathematics, physics, agriculture, chemistry and zoology. The papers of inventors are also included. Individuals and organizations represented in the collection include: Oscar Dana Allen, Jesse Buel, William Whitman Bailey, John Torrey, Attale Riche, Denison Olmsted, Simon Newcomb, James Duncan Hague, Amos Beebe Eaton, Asa Gray, Arthur Williams...
Dates:
1817-1918
Lars Onsager papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 794
Overview:
The papers consist of correspondence, research materials for articles and lectures, teaching materials related to Yale University and the University of Miami, and citations for awards received by Lars Onsager, notably the Nobel Prize in 1968.
Dates:
1926-1977
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Lars Onsager papers
Leonard Jimmie Savage papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 695
Overview:
The papers consist of personal and professional correspondence, writings, notes, teaching materials, subject files, audio tapes and other papers of Leonard J. Savage (1917-1971), mathematician, statistician, author, teacher, and professor at Yale from 1964-1971. The papers relate primarily to Savage's work in the field of statistics, especially Bayesian statistics, and includes extensive correspondence with many of his professional colleagues from around the world. Also included is a large...
Dates:
1935-1998
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Leonard Jimmie Savage papers
Ithiel Town papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 499
Overview:
Correspondence from John Allan, William Hayward and Theodore Strong, a notebook of mathematical exercises, photostatic copies of letters of patent for improvements on bridges and one architectural drawing of Jones Court, built in New York City for James I. Jones. Also included is a scrapbook assembled by Town's daughter, Etha Town Peters.
Dates:
1801-1855
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Ithiel Town papers
Cornelius Vanderbilt Papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 1181
Overview:
Chiefly correspondence, memoranda, a notebook, and memorabilia relating to Vanderbilt's service as an officer in the U.S. Engineers during World War I. Also included are technical notebooks on mathematics, chemistry, and engineering (1897-1926). Of particular note are two illustrated manuscript volumes: one by Joseph Lyddell Peyton outlining a course of instruction for British naval officers, and the second by John Burnell showing the headlands of various coastlines in Europe and Africa. Also...
Dates:
1776-1953, bulk 1901-1928
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Manuscripts and Archives
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Cornelius Vanderbilt Papers