The Mathematics Department had the first Master’s degree program and then later the first Ph.D. program at 51ÁÔÆæ. You can read “an account of the behind-the-scenes acts which aided in the development of 51ÁÔÆæ’s present graduate school” written in 1990 by Professor Morris Marden, who is generally considered to be the founder of our graduate program and of our department as a research department. He sent this document along with other documents to be deposited in the 51ÁÔÆæ Graduate School files in 1990. The department sponsors an annual lecture named for Prof. Marden. The lecture is free and open to the public.
- Prof. Morris Marden’s Biography
- Prof. Morris Marden’s Account of the Founding of the Graduate Program
- Prof. Morris Marden’s Reminiscences on a Life in Mathematics
- The Marden Lecture Series
Classical Math Lectures
John Littlewood’s Lectures
Prof. John E. Littlewood was a Visiting Knapp Professor in our Department from September to December 1966. During his time here, he taught a course entitled Research Problems in Real and Complex Analysis Prelude on Background and Methods, Notation and other Preliminaries.
He also gave three public lectures here during that semester. One was The Mathematician’s Art of Work. It was later (September – October 1967).