Identity area
Reference code
Add. MS a/594
Title
Text of two lectures given by J. E. Littlewood as Knapp Visiting Professor at the University of Wisconsin
Date(s)
- 1966, 2016 (Creation)
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Item
Extent and medium
2 folders
Context area
Name of creator
Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Gift of Bela Bollobás, 2018.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Photomechanical copy of J. E. Littlewood's second lecture given as Knapp Visiting Professor, "Research Problems in Real and Complex Analysis," prepared for print, accompanied by a letter from an editor at the University of Wisconsin Press dated Dec. 1966 declining to publish the manuscript. Accompanied by a brochure celebrating 50 years of doctoral research at the Mathematics Department at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, 1966-2016, including a biography of Littlewood and his first Knapp lecture, "The Mathematician's Art of Work."