Department History Resources

Harvard Mathematics Department

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
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
Models	Surface 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
ICM 1950	Information and links on ICM 1950 at Harvard and MIT
S.E.Morison, Harvard College in the 17'th century	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

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
Elwood Byerly (1949-1935) Raoul Bott (1923-2005) John Farrar (1779-1853) George Mackey (1916-2006) Benjamin Peirce (1809-1880)	Lars Ahlfors Garrett Birkhoff Maxime Bocher Gabriel Marcus Green (1891-1919) William Fogg Osgood

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