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Call Number: SC0404
Creator:
Bergman, Stefan, 1898-
Title: Stefan Bergman papers
Dates: circa 1940-1972
Physical Description:
2.5 Linear feet
Summary: Papers include professional correspondence, 1948-67, primarily
with Hilda van Mises (formerly Hilda Geiringer) and Zeev Nehari; lecture notes from his
teaching at M.I.T., ca. 1940; articles, reports, and reprints; annotated drafts; and
other miscellaneous items.
Language(s): The materials are in German.
Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Stanford University Libraries
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: speccollref@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/spc/spc.html
This collection is open for research.
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials
must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections and University
Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California 94304-6064. Consent is
given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not
intended to include or imply permission from the copyright owner. Such permission
must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s) or assigns. See:
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Stefan Bergman Papers (SC0404). Department of Special Collections and University
Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
Mathematician and pioneer in theories concerning the functions of complex variables.
Born in Poland, Bergman studied in Vienna and Berlin and received his Ph.D. in 1922. He
taught at the University of Berlin and at the Universities of Tomsk and Tiflis in the
Soviet Union. In 1939 he moved to the United States and taught at Brown, M.I.T., and
Harvard. He joined the Stanford faculty in 1952 where he taught until his retirement in
1972.
Papers include professional correspondence, 1948-67, primarily with Hilda van Mises
(formerly Hilda Geiringer) and Zeev Nehari; lecture notes from his teaching at M.I.T.,
ca. 1940; articles, reports, and reprints; annotated drafts; and other miscellaneous
items.
Bergman, Stefan, 1898-
Geiringer, Hilda, 1893-1973.
Nehari, Zeev, 1915-
Stanford University. Dept. of
Mathematics--Faculty.
Mathematics.