Harvard Mathematics Department History

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

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.

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