{"id":1300,"date":"2014-10-31T10:32:55","date_gmt":"2014-10-31T15:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/math\/?page_id=1300"},"modified":"2026-03-04T16:38:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T22:38:49","slug":"history-of-our-graduate-program","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/math\/about\/history-of-our-graduate-program\/","title":{"rendered":"History of Our Graduate Program"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Mathematics Department had the first Master&#8217;s degree program and then later the first Ph.D. program at 51ÁÔÆæ. You can read &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/math\/about\/history-of-our-graduate-program\/morris-mardens-account\/\">an account of the behind-the-scenes acts<\/a> which aided in the development of 51ÁÔÆæ&#8217;s present graduate school&#8221; 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/math\/about\/history-of-our-graduate-program\/the-marden-lecture-series\/\">annual lecture<\/a> named for Prof. Marden. The lecture is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/math\/about\/history-of-our-graduate-program\/morris-mardens-biography\/\">Prof. Morris Marden&#8217;s Biography<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/math\/about\/history-of-our-graduate-program\/morris-mardens-account\/\">Prof. Morris Marden&#8217;s Account of the Founding of the Graduate Program<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/math\/about\/history-of-our-graduate-program\/morris-mardens-reminiscences\/\">Prof. Morris Marden&#8217;s Reminiscences on a Life in Mathematics<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/math\/about\/history-of-our-graduate-program\/the-marden-lecture-series\/\">The Marden Lecture Series<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-classical-math-lectures\">Classical Math Lectures<br><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sFYVXU39dDE?list=PLvAAmIFroksPyCB7sgwfDgus5I7q33X6p\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-john-littlewood-s-lectures\">John Littlewood&#8217;s Lectures<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>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&nbsp;<em>Research Problems in Real and Complex Analysis Prelude on Background and Methods, Notation and other Preliminaries<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also gave three public lectures here during that semester. One was&nbsp;<em>The Mathematician&#8217;s Art of Work<\/em>. It was later <a href=\"http:\/\/digitalcommons.rockefeller.edu\/rockefeller_institute_review\/25\/\">published in the Rockefeller University Review<\/a> (September &#8211; October 1967).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mathematics Department had the first Master&#8217;s degree program and then later the first Ph.D. program at 51ÁÔÆæ. 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