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Documents

• Donor Guidelines [PDF document]
• History of Science Resources at the University of Texas [PDF document], updated September 2009.
  
  • Includes annotated list of resources from the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History and the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center
• Archives of American Mathematics Subject Guide [PDF document]
• R. L. Moore Papers, Appendices [PDF documents]:
  • Appendix One, Cross-Reference guide to R. L. Moore's notebooks
  • Appendix Two, Publications of R. L. Moore
  • Appendix Three, Ph.D and Graduate Students of R. L. Moore

Articles about the Archives of American Mathematics

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• The Archives of American Mathematics Spotlight in MAA FOCUS, the newsletter of the Mathematical Association of America and on MAA online:
  
  • "A Good Start to a New Year" and "More Digitization Projects," page 31, February/March 2015
  • "MAA Films Digitized with Simons Foundation Gift," page 30, December 2014/January 2015
  • "Mysteries: Answers, Corrections, and New Questions," pages 26-27,  October/November 2014 
  • "Learning Who Is Who," page 31, August/September 2014
  • "Can You Name These People?" page 13, June/July 2014
  • "A Closer Look Inside the Math Archives," pages 23-24, April/May 2014
  • "Math Archives at JMM 2014" and "Mysior Identified" page 34, December 2013/January 2014. [Note: "Mysior Identified" misidentified the gentleman in the picture as Adam Mysior. The correct identification is Art Frazho. Please see February/March 2014, page 2, for correction];
  • "The Math Archives Hosts MAA Films on Its Website" and "Answers to MAA FOCUS April/May 2013 Mystery Pictures," pages 25-26, December 2013/January 2014
  • "Preserving and Digitizing MAA's Films," by Ivars Peterson, pages 12-13,  August/September 2013
  • "Correspondence Added to Collection," by Carol Mead, and "New Gems in Old Erdos-  Pomerance Correspondence," by Dominic Klyve, pages 12-13, June/July 2013
  •  "Naming Mystery Men," pages 15-16, April/May 2013
  •  "Meet Me in San Diego at JMM," page 22, December 2012/January 2013
  •  "Benefactors Help Collections Go Digital," page 33, October/November 2012
  •  "The Cost of Digitization," and "Photograph Identifications," pages 22- 23, June/July 2012
  •  "Introducing the Marion Walter Collection," pages 22-23, April/May 2012
  •  "Names and Faces," pages 27-28, February/March 2012
  •  "Putting Names to Faces," page 24-25, December 2011/January 2012
  •  “Mystery People,” page 18, October/November 2011
  •  "Collecting History," page 23, August/September 2011
  • "Math Archives Expands Content and Access," page 26, June/July 2011
  • "Researching and Writing MAA's History," page 28, February/March 2011
  • "The AAM Guide to Donating Collections," April 2010
  • "Two Audio Collections," April 2010
  • "An Interview with Carol Mead, Mathematics Archivist," January 2010
  • "The Lawrence Biedenharn Papers," by Carol Mead, November 2008
  • "The Jeanne Agnew Papers," by Michelle Bogart and Carol Mead, August/September 2008
  • "The Isaac Jacob Schoenberg Papers," by Carol Mead, September 2007
  • "The Alfred Schild Papers," by Nikki Thomas, November 2006
  • "Oral History and the Archives of American Mathematics," by Kristy Sorensen, August/September 2006
  • "H. S. Vandiver Papers," by Kristy Sorensen, May/June 2006
  • "Photographic Mystery Update," by Kristy Sorensen, March 2006
  • "The Archives of American Mathematics on the Web," by Kristy Sorensen, February 2006
  • "The Bryce S. DeWitt Papers," by Kristy Sorensen, January 2006
  • "An MAA Photographic Mystery," by Kristy Sorensen, December 2005
  • "The Walter Feit Papers," by Nikki Thomas, November 2005
  • "The New Mathematical Library Records," by Robin Howard and Kristy Sorensen, August/September 2005
  • "The Max Dehn Papers," by Kristy Sorensen, May/June 2005
  • "The R. H. Bing Papers," by Kristy Sorensen from material compiled by Frederic F. Burchsted, March 2005
  • "The George Bruce Halsted Papers," by Kristy Sorensen, February 2005
  • "Addition to the Mathematical Association of America Records," by Kristy Sorensen, January 2005
  • "The R. L. Moore Papers," by Kristy Sorensen, December 2004
  • "The Mathematical Association of America Records," by Kristy Sorensen, November 2004
  • "The NCTM Oral History Project Records," by Kristy Sorensen, September 2004
  • "The Archives of American Mathematics," by Kristy Sorensen, May/June 2004 

• Historia Mathematica
  • "New Archives of American Mathematics Collections," by Frederic F. Burchsted; Volume 20, page 92-94, February 1993
  • "Archives of American Mathematics," by Frederic F. Burchsted; Volume 14, page 366-374, November 1987
  • "Papers of C. A. Truesdell and R. L. Wilder," by Frederic F. Burchsted; Voume 13, pages 171-172, 1986
  • "Archive of the School Mathematics Study Group," by Albert C. Lewis; Volume 6, page 206-207, 1979
  • "Establishment of 'The Archives of American Mathematics,'" by Albert C. Lewis; Volume 5, page 340-341, August 1978
  • "Papers of R. L. Moore and H. S. Vandiver," by Albert C. Lewis; Volume 2, page 272, 1975

• History of Science in America News and Views:
  • "Availabilty of Collections," by Frederic F. Burchsted; Volume 9, page 6, 1992
  • "News and Announcements," by Frederic F. Burchsted; Volume 4, pages 9-10, 1987

• A Century of Mathematics in America, Part III, edited by Peter Duren, American Mathematical Society, Providence: Rhode Island, 1989, pages 667-674, "Sources for the History of Mathematics in the Archives of American Mathematics," by Frederic F. Burchsted

• American Institute of Physics History Newsletter
  • "Sources for the History of Physics in the University Archives of the University of Texas at Austin," by Frederic F. Burchsted, Volume 20, number 2, November 1988

• History of Science Society Newsletter:
  • "Archives," by Frederic F. Burchsted; Volume 16, page 21, 1987

• History of Science Society Guide to the History of Science, by Frederic F. Burchsted; page 54, 1986

• The Mathematical Intelligencer:
  • "An Archive for American Mathematics," by Albert C. Lewis; Volume 1, pages 175-176, 1978

Links

• The Legacy of R. L. Moore Project
• The Mathematical Association of America
• The American Mathematical Society/Mathematical Association of America Joint Archives Committee
• "Why Archive?," by Albert C. Lewis. [This article previously appeared in The Notices of the AMS,40(1993): 847--9 and in FOCUS, vol. 13, No. 4 (1993): 11--12]
• "The Value of Mathematical Archives" by Steve Batterson , et al. in The Notices of the AMS, 50 (2003): 1409-1415. [PDF document]
• The Mathematics Genealogy Project
• G. Baley Price Papers at the University of Kansas

Contact Information

Reference inquiries regarding the Archives of American Mathematics should be directed to the Reference Department of the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at 512/495-4532 or at cah.reference@austin.utexas.edu.

Other inquiries about the Archives of American Mathematics should be directed to Carol Mead, Archivist, Archives of American Mathematics, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at 512/495-4539, or at carolmead@austin.utexas.edu.