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Alfred North Whitehead collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0282
Abstract
Alfred North Whitehead was an English mathematician and philosopher born on the Isle of Thanet in 1861. The bulk of the collection is formed by correspondence between members of the Whitehead family: Alfred North Whitehead, his wife, Evelyn, their son, T. North and his wife, Margaret dating from the 1920s-1940s.
Dates:
1899-1949; Majority of material found within 1924-1939
Found in:
Special Collections
Rufus Isaacs papers
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MS-0309
Abstract
Rufus Isaacs was a mathematician and the creator of a field of mathematics called differential games. The collection consists of conference material, correspondence with colleagues, reprints of articles, a photocopy of his first paper on differential games from the Rand Corporation, and a draft of the preface for the 1965 edition of "Differential Games." Materials span in date from 1941 to 1975.
Dates:
1941 - 1975
Found in:
Special Collections
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- Haldane, R. B. Haldane, Viscount (Richard Burdon Haldane), 1856-1928 1
- Isaacs, Rufus, 1914-1977 1
- Lawrence, William Henry, 1850-1924 1
- Lowe, Victor, 1907-1988 1
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- Northrop, F. S. C. (Filmer Stuart Cuckow), 1893-1992 1
- School of Arts and Sciences. Department of Mathematics 1
- Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946 1
- Taylor, Henry Osborn, 1856-1941 1
- Von Neumann, John, 1903-1957 1
- Whitehead, Alfred North, 1861-1947 1
- Whitehead, T. N. (Thomas North) 1
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