The Archives of American Mathematics, located at the

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, aims to collect, preserve, and provide access to the papers principally of American mathematicians and the records of American mathematical organizations.

History

The Archives began in 1975 at the University of Texas at Austin with the preservation of the papers of Texas mathematicians R.L. Moore and H.S. Vandiver. In 1978, the

Mathematical Association of America The Mathematical Association of America (MAA) is a professional society that focuses on mathematics accessible at the undergraduate level. Members include university, college, and high school teachers; graduate and undergraduate students; pure a ...

established the university as the official repository for its archival records and the name "Archives of American Mathematics" was adopted to encompass all of the mathematical archival collections at the university. Originally a part of the Harry Ransom Center, in 1984, the Archives was added to the special collections of the

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at the University of Texas at Austin.

Collections

The AAM includes approximately 120 collections.

Notable examples

Records. * Thomas F. Banchoff Papers document a career of teaching, writing, and making mathematical films. *

Marion Walter Marion Walter (July 30, 1928 – May 9, 2021) was an internationally-known mathematics educator and professor of mathematics at the University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon. There is a theorem named after her, called Marion Walter's Theorem or jus ...

Photograph Collection includes photographs of A.A. Albert, H.S.M. Coxeter, Paul Erdős, Fritz John, D.H. Lehmer, Alexander Ostrowski, George Polya, Mina Rees, and Olga Taussky-Todd. * School Mathematics Study Group Records document the history of the "New Math" movement of the 1960s, and includes the files of the director, Edward G. Begle. * Dorothy L. Bernstein Papers reflect both her professional and personal life. * Paul R. Halmos Photograph Collection consists of 14,000 photographs Halmos and others took from the 1930s to 2006. *

Ivor Grattan-Guinness Ivor Owen Grattan-Guinness (23 June 1941 – 12 December 2014) was a historian of mathematics and logic. Life Grattan-Guinness was born in Bakewell, England; his father was a mathematics teacher and educational administrator. He gained his b ...

Papers reflect the career of a mathematics historian. *

Paul Erdős Paul Erdős ( hu, Erdős Pál ; 26 March 1913 – 20 September 1996) was a Hungarian mathematician. He was one of the most prolific mathematicians and producers of mathematical conjectures of the 20th century. pursued and proposed problems in ...

and Carl Pomerance Correspondence Collection consists of 435 letters between Erdős and Pomerance.

Related collections elsewhere

Significant archives of American mathematicians and their organizations are held by other repositories. The following are examples which include a few Canadian collections with substantial United States connections. For the complete holdings, the catalogs of the individual repositories would need to be consulted. In addition, the archives of academic institutions will typically include administrative records of mathematics departments and clubs as well as the papers of faculty. * John Hay Library,

Brown University Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...

American Mathematical Society The American Mathematical Society (AMS) is an association of professional mathematicians dedicated to the interests of mathematical research and scholarship, and serves the national and international community through its publications, meeting ...

Records (1888- ); Raymond Clare Archibald (1875-1957); James Glaisher (1848-1928); R. G. D. Richardson (1878-1949); Marshall Harvey Stone (1903-1989);

James Joseph Sylvester James Joseph Sylvester (3 September 1814 – 15 March 1897) was an English mathematician. He made fundamental contributions to matrix theory, invariant theory, number theory, partition theory, and combinatorics. He played a leadership ...

(1814-1897) also at St. John's College (Cambridge). *

American Philosophical Society The American Philosophical Society (APS), founded in 1743 in Philadelphia, is a scholarly organization that promotes knowledge in the sciences and humanities through research, professional meetings, publications, library resources, and communit ...

Robert Patterson Robert Patterson (January 12, 1792 – August 7, 1881) was an Irish-born United States major general during the American Civil War, chiefly remembered for inflicting an early defeat on Stonewall Jackson, but crucially failing to stop Confed ...

(1743-1824);

David Rittenhouse David Rittenhouse (April 8, 1732 – June 26, 1796) was an American astronomer, inventor, clockmaker, mathematician, surveyor, scientific instrument craftsman, and public official. Rittenhouse was a member of the American Philosophical Society a ...

(1732-1796); Robert Adrain (1775-1843);

Samuel Stanley Wilks Samuel Stanley Wilks (June 17, 1906 – March 7, 1964) was an American mathematician and academic who played an important role in the development of mathematical statistics, especially in regard to practical applications. Early life and edu ...

(1906-1964). *

Amherst College Amherst College ( ) is a private liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts. Founded in 1821 as an attempt to relocate Williams College by its then-president Zephaniah Swift Moore, Amherst is the third oldest institution of higher educati ...

—Ebenezer Strong Snell (1801-1876). *

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Nathaniel Bowditch Nathaniel Bowditch (March 26, 1773 – March 16, 1838) was an early American mathematician remembered for his work on ocean navigation. He is often credited as the founder of modern maritime navigation; his book '' The New American Practical Navi ...

(1773-1838); Nicholas Pike (1743-1819). * College of Charleston Library—Lewis Reeves Gibbes (1810-1894), also Library of Congress; *

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

-- Arthur Korn (1870-1945); Cassius Jackson Keyser (1862-1947); Christine Franklin (1847-1930) and Fabian Franklin (1853-1939); F. A. P. Barnard (1809-1889);

Harold Hotelling Harold Hotelling (; September 29, 1895 – December 26, 1973) was an American mathematical statistician and an influential economic theorist, known for Hotelling's law, Hotelling's lemma, and Hotelling's rule in economics, as well as Hotelling's ...

(1895-); Henry Seely White (1861-1943);

John Howard Van Amringe John Howard Van Amringe (April 3, 1836 – September 10, 1915) was an American educator and mathematician. Life and career Van Amringe was born in Philadelphia on April 3, 1835. He was a son of William Frederick Van Amringe (1791–1873) and S ...

(1835-1915); Thomas Scott Fiske (1865-1944); David Eugene Smith (1860-1944). *

Dartmouth College Dartmouth College (; ) is a private research university in Hanover, New Hampshire. Established in 1769 by Eleazar Wheelock, it is one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. Although founded to educate Native ...

-- George Robert Stibitz (1904-1995). *

Duke University Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist Jam ...

—Edward Henry Courtenay (1803-1853). * Hampshire College—Herman Goldstine (1913-2004). *

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of highe ...

-- Benjamin Peirce (1809-1880);

Charles Sanders Peirce Charles Sanders Peirce ( ; September 10, 1839 – April 19, 1914) was an American philosopher, logician, mathematician and scientist who is sometimes known as "the father of pragmatism". Educated as a chemist and employed as a scientist for ...

(1839-1914); Damodar Dharmanand Kosambi (1907–1966);

Isaac Greenwood Isaac Greenwood (11 May 1702 – 22 October 1745) was an American mathematician. He was the first Hollisian Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at Harvard College. Biography He graduated at Harvard in 1721, and was instrumental ...

(1702-1745); John Farrar (1779-1853); John Winthrop (1714–1779);

Maxime Bôcher Maxime Bôcher (August 28, 1867 – September 12, 1918) was an American mathematician who published about 100 papers on differential equations, series, and algebra. He also wrote elementary texts such as ''Trigonometry'' and ''Analytic Geometry''. ...

(1867-1918);

Richard Von Mises Richard Edler von Mises (; 19 April 1883 – 14 July 1953) was an Austrian scientist and mathematician who worked on solid mechanics, fluid mechanics, aerodynamics, aeronautics, statistics and probability theory. He held the position of Gordo ...

(1883-1953); Thomas Hill (1818-1891); George David Birkhoff (1884-1944). *

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-- American Statistical Association (1839-);

Herbert Solomon Herbert Solomon (March 13, 1919 – September 20, 2004) was an American statistician. He was a professor emeritus of statistics at Stanford University and co-founder of the university's statistics department. He earned a bachelor's degree from t ...

(1919-2004); Edward J. Wegman (1943-);

Eugene Lukacs __NOTOC__ Eugene Lukacs ( Hungarian: ''Lukács Jenő'', 14 August 1906 – 21 December 1987) was a Hungarian-American statistician notable (Obituary) for his work in characterization of distributions, stability theory, and being the author of ''C ...

(1906-1987); Ingram Olkin (1924-). * Hope College—Albert Eugene Lampen (1887-1963); Jay Erenst Folkert (1916-). *

Library of Congress The Library of Congress (LOC) is the research library that officially serves the United States Congress and is the ''de facto'' national library of the United States. It is the oldest federal cultural institution in the country. The libra ...

Andrew Ellicott Andrew Ellicott (January 24, 1754 – August 28, 1820) was an American land surveyor who helped map many of the territories west of the Appalachians, surveyed the boundaries of the District of Columbia, continued and completed Pierre (Pet ...

(1754-1820); George F. Becker (1847-1919);

Oswald Veblen Oswald Veblen (June 24, 1880 – August 10, 1960) was an American mathematician, geometer and topologist, whose work found application in atomic physics and the theory of relativity. He proved the Jordan curve theorem in 1905; while this wa ...

(1880-1960); Lewis Reeves Gibbes (1810-1894);

John von Neumann John von Neumann (; hu, Neumann János Lajos, ; December 28, 1903 – February 8, 1957) was a Hungarian-American mathematician, physicist, computer scientist, engineer and polymath. He was regarded as having perhaps the widest c ...

(1903-1957), also College of Charleston; Gloria Ford Gilmer (1928-2021). * Maryland Historical Society --

John Henry Alexander John Henry Alexander (June 26, 1812 – March 2, 1867) was a noted scientist, civil engineer and businessman. Personal life Alexander was born in Annapolis, Maryland, on June 26, 1812. The youngest child of William and Mary (Harwood Stockett) ...

(1812-1867). * McMaster University (Canada) --

Bertrand Russell Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970) was a British mathematician, philosopher, logician, and public intellectual. He had a considerable influence on mathematics, logic, set theory, linguistics, a ...

(1872-1970). *

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of th ...

-- John Daniel Runkle (1822-1902); Norbert Wiener (1894-1964). *

National Research Council (Canada) The National Research Council Canada (NRC; french: Conseil national de recherches Canada) is the primary national agency of the Government of Canada dedicated to science and technology research & development. It is the largest federal research ...

-- Julius Plücker (1801-1868). * New Jersey Historical Society -- Francis Robbins Upton (1852-1921). *

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Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler (October 6, 1770 – November 20, 1843) was a Swiss-American surveyor who is considered the forefather of both the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the National Institute of Standards and Tech ...

(1770-1843). *

New York University New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded by a group of New Yorkers led by then- Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin. In 1832, th ...

Richard Courant Richard Courant (January 8, 1888 – January 27, 1972) was a German American mathematician. He is best known by the general public for the book '' What is Mathematics?'', co-written with Herbert Robbins. His research focused on the areas of r ...

(1888-1972). *

Northwestern University Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston, Illinois. Founded in 1851, Northwestern is the oldest chartered university in Illinois and is ranked among the most prestigious academic institutions in the world. Charte ...

-- Ernst D. Hellinger (1883-1950); Helen M. Clark (1908-1974); Lois W. Griffiths (1899-1981). * Northwestern State University -- Guy Waldo Dunnington (1906-1974) * Ohio History Connection -- Jared Mansfield (1759-1830), also U.S. Military Academy. *

Princeton University Princeton University is a private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the ...

-- Alfred James Lotka (1880-1949); Walter Minto (1753-1796); Eugene Paul Wigner (1902-1995); Henry Dallas Thompson (1864-1927);

Kurt Gödel Kurt Friedrich Gödel ( , ; April 28, 1906 – January 14, 1978) was a logician, mathematician, and philosopher. Considered along with Aristotle and Gottlob Frege to be one of the most significant logicians in history, Gödel had an imm ...

(1906-1978); Nicola Fergola (1757-1824); Sylvester Robins (files: 1880-1899). *

Rice University William Marsh Rice University (Rice University) is a Private university, private research university in Houston, Houston, Texas. It is on a 300-acre campus near the Houston Museum District and adjacent to the Texas Medical Center. Rice is ranke ...

—Fred Terry Rogers (1914-1956);

Salomon Bochner Salomon Bochner (20 August 1899 – 2 May 1982) was an Austrian mathematician, known for work in mathematical analysis, probability theory and differential geometry. Life He was born into a Jewish family in Podgórze (near Kraków), then ...

(1899-1982). * Rockefeller University -- Mark Kac (1914-1984). *

Rutgers University Rutgers University (; RU), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's College, and was ...

—Edward Albert Bowser (1837-1910); George Washington Coakley (1814-1893). *

Smith College Smith College is a private liberal arts women's college in Northampton, Massachusetts. It was chartered in 1871 by Sophia Smith and opened in 1875. It is the largest member of the historic Seven Sisters colleges, a group of elite women's coll ...

, Sophia Smith Collection --

Dorothy Maud Wrinch Dorothy Maud Wrinch (12 September 1894 – 11 February 1976; married names Nicholson, Glaser) was a mathematician and biochemical theorist best known for her attempt to deduce protein structure using mathematical principles. She was a champion ...

(1895-1976). *

Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is conside ...

-- Georg Pólya (1887-1985). *

University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its main campus is located in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood. The University of Chicago is consistently ranked among the b ...

-- A. Adrian Albert (1905-1972 ); Saunders Mac Lane (1909-2005); E. H. Moore (1862-1932); Alfred L. Putnam (1916-2004); Nicolas Rashevsky (1899-1972); Ernest Julius Wilczynski (1876-1932). *

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, University of Illinois, or UIUC) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana. It is the flagship institution of the Un ...

Arnold Emch Arnold F. Emch (24 March 1871 – 1959) was an American mathematician, known for his work on the inscribed square problem. Emch received his Ph.D. in 1895 at the University of Kansas under the supervision of Henry Byron Newson. In the late 1890s u ...

(1871-1959); Arthur Byron Coble (1878-1966);

George Abram Miller George Abram Miller (31 July 1863 – 10 February 1951) was an early group theorist. At age 17 Miller began school-teaching to raise funds for higher education. In 1882 he entered Franklin and Marshall Academy, and progressed to Muhlenberg Coll ...

(1863-1951); George William Meyers (1864-1931)
Leonard L. Steimley
(1890-1975); Olive C. Hazlett (1890-1974);

Robert Daniel Carmichael Robert Daniel Carmichael (March 1, 1879 – May 2, 1967) was an American mathematician. Biography Carmichael was born in Goodwater, Alabama. He attended Lineville College, briefly, and he earned his bachelor's degree in 1898, while he was ...

(1879-1967). *

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

—Wooster Woodruff Beman (1850-1922); Louis Allen Hopkins (1881-). * State Historical Society of Missouri—Joseph Ficklin (1833-1887). *

University of North Carolina The University of North Carolina is the multi-campus public university system for the state of North Carolina. Overseeing the state's 16 public universities and the NC School of Science and Mathematics, it is commonly referred to as the UNC S ...

; U. of Texas --

Charles Scott Venable Charles Scott Venable (March 19, 1827 – August 11, 1900) was a mathematician, astronomer, and military officer. In mathematics, he is noted for authoring a series of publications as a University of Virginia professor. Early life He was bo ...

(1827-1900). * University of Oklahoma Library --

Nathan Altshiller Court Nathan Altshiller Court (1881-1968) was a Polish-American mathematician, a geometer in particular and author of the famous book ''College Geometry - An Introduction to the Modern Geometry of the Triangle and the Circle''. Biography Nathan Court w ...

(1881-1968). *

University of Toronto The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution ...

-- Kenneth O. May (1915-1977). *

University of Virginia The University of Virginia (UVA) is a public research university in Charlottesville, Virginia. Founded in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson, the university is ranked among the top academic institutions in the United States, with highly selective ad ...

-- G. T. Whyburn (1904-1969) * University of Washington Libraries -- Carl B. Allendoerfer (1911-1974). *

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-- Albert C. Schaeffer (files: 1954-1956); Bronson Barlow (Mathematics of Design) (b. 1924); Charles S. Slichter (files: 1891-1941); Cyrus C. MacDuffee (1895-1961); Edward Burr Van Vleck (1863-1943); Ernest B. Skinner (files: 1892-1935); Isaac Schoenberg (files: 1930-1980); Ivan Sokolnikoff (1901-); J. Barkley Rosser (1907-1989); John D. Mayor (?); Mark H. Ingraham (1896-1982); Military Training Programs, WW II (1943-1945); U.S. Naval Research Office (1951-1955); Rudolph E. Langer (1894-1968); Stephen Kleene (1909-1994);

Warren Weaver Warren Weaver (July 17, 1894 – November 24, 1978) was an American scientist, mathematician, and science administrator. He is widely recognized as one of the pioneers of machine translation and as an important figure in creating support for scien ...

(1894-1978). *

Virginia Military Institute la, Consilio et Animis (on seal) , mottoeng = "In peace a glorious asset, In war a tower of strength""By courage and wisdom" (on seal) , established = , type = Public senior military college , accreditation = SACS , endowment = $696.8 mill ...

-- Claudius Crozet (1789-1864). * Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State U. -- Irving John Good (1916-2009); John Edward Williams (1867-1943). * Wake Forest University—John Wesley Sawyer (1916-); Roland L. Gay (1905-1979) * Western Reserve Historical Society (Cleveland) --

Elisha Scott Loomis Elisha Scott Loomis (September 18, 1852 – December 11, 1940) was an American teacher, mathematician, genealogist, writer and engineer. Ancestry and early life Elisha Scott Loomis, of English–Scottish and Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry, was born ...

(1852-1940). * Yale University Library -- Abraham Robinson (1918-1974); Elias Loomis (1811-1889);

Josiah Willard Gibbs Josiah Willard Gibbs (; February 11, 1839 – April 28, 1903) was an American scientist who made significant theoretical contributions to physics, chemistry, and mathematics. His work on the applications of thermodynamics was instrumental in t ...

(1839-1903). * Yeshiva University -- Jekuthiel Ginsburg (1889-1957)

References

External links

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