Department History Resources

Harvard Mathematics Department

Resources and documents

A history in Sum	150 Years of Mathematics at Harvard (1825-1975), by Steve Nadis and Shing-Tung Yau
Clark Elliott	Bibliography on the History of the Sciences at Harvard (1636-1945)
Timeline	About the early teaching of Mathematics at Harvard
Named Chairs	Named Chairs
Department directories	Scanned Directories, 1987-2014
Garrett Birkhoff	Mathematics at Harvard, 1836-1944
Garrett Birkhoff	The rise of modern Algebra, 1936-1950
Lao Genevra Simons	Fabre and Mathematics and other Essays
Lao Genevra Simons	Bibliography of Early American Textbooks on Algebra
Lithographs	Old Lithographs of Harvard
Maps	Old Maps of Harvard
Postcards	Old Postcards of Harvard
PhDthesis	PhD thesis since 1873
Old Thesis	Old math thesis of Harvard
Models photos 2006	Model collection of the department
Models photos 2012	Model collection of the department
Views of Harvard	A pictorial record to 1860
Howard H Aiken, Harvard and IBM	"Science at Harvard University: historical perspectives"
J.Coolidge's article	Mathematics at Harvard, 1870-1928
S. Battersons article [PDF]	Bocher, Osgood, and the Ascendance of American Mathematics at Harvard (AMS)
ICM 1950	Information and links on ICM 1950 at Harvard and MIT
S.E.Morison, Harvard College in the 17'th century	Mark I	Manual for Mark I computer
Harvard University Press, 1946	Mathematics and Astronomy Physics Charter of 1650 The student and his day Grammar, Rhetoric and Logic
Charles Haskins	Harvard College in the 17'th century, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Photo of 1936	42. Summer Meeting of the Mathematical Organization of America, Cambridge, 1936

Images from: Views of Harvard.

Resources on Harvard Mathematicians

Historical Register of Harvard University, 1636-1936 Search Math Tutor for Harvard entries Addressbook of living mathematicians, physisists and astromers 1905 (pages with Harvard entries
Andy Gleason (1921-2008) Raoul Bott (1923-2005) George Mackey (1916-2006) Elwood Byerly (1949-1935) Benjamin Peirce (1809-1880) John Farrar (1779-1853)	Lars Ahlfors Garrett Birkhoff Maxime Bocher Gabriel Marcus Green (1891-1919) William Fogg Osgood

Old text books of Harvard Mathematicians

Links

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