Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- Schiffer, M. M.
- Abstract:
- Book chapter, articles, lectures, and some correspondence dating from Schiffer's tenure at Stanford University.
- Extent:
- 4 Linear feet
- Language:
- The materials are in English .
- Preferred citation:
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M.M. Schiffer Papers (SC0654). Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Background
- Scope and content:
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These papers date from his tenure at Stanford University and consist largely of manuscripts and typescripts of book chapters, articles, and lectures. Topics include conformal mapping, relativity, differential equations, functions of complex variables, and mathematical physics. Other items include research notes and letters from Robert W. Fuller, Nicolai Minorsky, and J. G. Van der Corput.
- Biographical / historical:
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M. M. Schiffer was considered an authority on complex variables and conformal mapping; his special province was the application of these fields to mathematical physics, particularly to hydrodynamics. A native of Berlin, Schiffer earned his undergraduate degree at Friedrich-Wilhelm University in 1930 and pursued his graduate work at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, earning his Ph.D. in 1938. He taught there until 1946, when he moved to the United States and subsequently taught at Harvard and Princeton. He joined the Stanford faculty in 1952, serving as executive head of the Mathematics Department from 1954 to 1959. In 1967 Schiffer was appointed to the Robert Grimmett Professorship of Mathematics, a position he held until his retirement in 1977. While at Stanford he was involved in the School Mathematics Study Group and co-authored many technical reports for the Applied Mathematics and Statistics Laboratory. He died in 1997.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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There are no restrictions on access.
- Terms of access:
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Property rights reside with the repository. Literary rights reside with the creators of the documents or their heirs. To obtain permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the Public Services Librarian of the Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives.
- Preferred citation:
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M.M. Schiffer Papers (SC0654). Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
- Location of this collection:
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Stanford University Archives, Green Library557 Escondido MallStanford, CA 94305-6064, US
- Contact:
- (650) 725-1022