Archives of American Mathematics

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The Archives of American Mathematics, located at the University of Texas at Austin, aims to collect, preserve, and provide access to the papers principally of American mathematicians and the records of American mathematical organizations.

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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. [1]

In 1978, the Mathematical Association of America 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. [2] Originally a part of the Harry Ransom Center, in 1984, the Archives was added to the special collections of the Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin. [3]

Collections

The AAM includes approximately 120 collections.

Notable examples

Other holdings

  • Agnew (Jeanne) Papers
  • Air Force Operations Analysis Section
  • Anderson (Bruce A.) Papers
  • Ball (B. J.) Papers
  • Beberman (Max) Film Collection
  • Biedenharn (Lawrence) Papers
  • Bing (R. H.) Papers
  • Bruck (R. H.) Papers
  • Cheney (E. W.) Papers
  • Cleveland (Clark M) Papers
  • Conference on Orthogonal Expansions and their Continuous Analogues
  • Cooper (Albert Everett) Papers
  • Dehn (Max) Papers
  • DeWitt (Bryce S.) Papers
  • Dijkstra (Edsger W.) Papers
  • Dodd (Edward L.) Papers
  • Duke Mathematical Journal Records
  • Eberlein (W. F.) Papers
  • Ettlinger (H. J.) Papers
  • Ettlinger (H. J.) Photographs
  • Feit (Walter) Papers
  • Fuller (Frederick Lincoln) Papers
  • Greenwood (R. E.) Papers
  • Griffin (John S., Jr.) Papers
  • Grosswald (Emil) Papers
  • Halsted (George Bruce) Papers
  • Hedrick (E. R.) Collection
  • Helly (Eduard) Papers
  • Henderson (David) Papers
  • Henriksen (Melvin) Oral History Collection
  • Houston Topology Seminar Records
  • Johnson (Gordon) Papers
  • Jones (F. Burton) Papers
  • Jones (Phillip S.) Papers
  • Lane (Ralph E.) Papers
  • Linear Algebra and its Applications Records
  • Lubben (R. G.) Papers
  • Mac Lane (Saunders) Papers
  • Macfarlane (Alexander) Collection
  • Mathematics of Computation Unpublished Math Tables Collection
  • Mechanical Harmonic Synthesizer/Multiharmonograph Collection
  • Miksa (Francis L.) Papers
  • Moore (R. L.) Legacy Collection
  • Moore (R. L.) Papers
  • Morrey (Charles Bradfield) Papers
  • National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Oral History Project Records
  • National Research Council Collection
  • Neuberger (J. W.) Papers
  • New Mathematical Library Records
  • Nikodym (Otton Martin) Papers
  • Pettis (B. J.) Papers
  • Porter (Gerald J.) Mathematical Publications Collection
  • Price (G. Baley) Papers
  • Princeton Mathematics Community in the 1930s Oral History Collection
  • Rainich (George Yuri) Papers
  • Reid (William T.) Papers
  • Robinson (Abraham) Papers
  • Rosser (J. Barkley) Papers
  • Schild (Alfred) Papers
  • Schoenberg (I. J.) Papers
  • Schoenfeld (Lowell) Papers
  • Seever (Galen L.) Papers
  • Silverman (Louis Lazarus) Papers
  • Steenrod (Norman Earl) Papers
  • Stiles (F. A.) Papers
  • Truesdell (C.) Papers
  • Tucker (Albert William) Papers
  • Van Heijenoort (Jean) Papers
  • Vandiver (H. S.) Papers
  • Von Neumann (John) Papers
  • Wall (H. S.) Papers
  • Whyburn (Gordon Thomas) Papers
  • Whyburn (William M.) Papers
  • Wilder (Raymond Louis) Papers
  • William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition Records
  • Young (David M.) Papers

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.

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