Finding Aid to the Anthony P. Morse papers, 1928-1985

Mario H. Ramirez
The Bancroft Library
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-6000
Phone: (510) 642-6481
Fax: (510) 642-7589
Email: bancref@library.berkeley.edu
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Finding Aid to the Anthony P. Morse papers, 1928-1985

Collection number: BANC MSS 84/134 c

The Bancroft Library

University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-6000
Phone: (510) 642-6481
Fax: (510) 642-7589
Email: bancref@library.berkeley.edu
URL: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/
Finding Aid Author(s):
Mario H. Ramirez
Date Completed:
2013
Finding Aid Encoded By:
GenX
© 2013 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.

Collection Summary

Collection Title: Anthony P. Morse papers
Date (inclusive): 1928-1985
Collection Number: BANC MSS 84/134 c
Creator: Morse, Anthony P.
Extent: 7 cartons (8.75 linear feet)
Repository: The Bancroft Library.
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-6000
Phone: (510) 642-6481
Fax: (510) 642-7589
Email: bancref@library.berkeley.edu
URL: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/
Abstract: The Anthony P. Morse papers including correspondence, notes, writings, and publications.
Languages Represented: Collection materials are in English
Physical Location: Many of the Bancroft Library collections are stored offsite and advance notice may be required for use. For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the library's online catalog.

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Access

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Anthony P. Morse papers, BANC MSS 84/134 c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley

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Indexing Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog
Morse, Anthony P. (Anthony Perry)
Mathematicians -- California -- Berkeley
Berkeley (Calif.)
Faculty papers.

Administrative Information

Acquisition Information

Donated by Anthony P. Morse in 1981 and Trevor McMinn in 1986.

Accruals

No additions are expected.

Processing Information

Processed by Mario H. Ramirez

Biographical Information

Anthony P. Morse (1911-1984) was a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley. After receiving his PhD from Brown University in 1937, he spent two years at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey where his work focused on abstract analysis and measure theory. On the invitation of G.C. Evans, Morse moved to Berkeley in 1939 and taught at the university, on and off, until his retirement in 1972. During World War II (1943-1945) he joined the staff of the Ballistic Research Laboratory at the Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland. At the Laboratory, he formed part of a group of mathematicians charged with the analysis of exterior ballistic problems that arose from military requirements, as well as theoretical investigations for anticipated needs. At Berkeley, Morse was a popular professor and concentrated on creating a unified theory of logic and sets. He published two editions of his book A Theory of Sets in 1965 and, posthumously, 1986.

Scope and Content of Collection

The Anthony P. Morse papers, 1928-1985, contain correspondence, notes, course materials, writings and publications chronicling Morse’s career at U.C. Berkeley, as well as materials related to his years as a student. Highlights include drafts and revisions of his noted book, A Theory of Sets, and copious notes demonstrating his ongoing relationship to the field of mathematics. In addition, his correspondence maps his ongoing engagement and collaboration with the ideas of such colleagues as Gilles Rocher and C.R. Adams. Equally, the course materials aptly document his pedagogical process while at the university.

 

Series 1: Correspondence, undated, 1938-1983

carton 1, folder 1

Letters of Recommendation, 1948-1949, 1958-1968, 1972-1977, 1982

carton 1, folder 2

Letters to Rowena, 1979

carton 1, folder 3

Silberman, Ed, 1956

carton 1, folder 4

General, 1979, 1981

carton 1, folder 5

Publisher, Theory of Sets, 1964-1970, 1980-1981

carton 1, folder 6

Rocher, Gilles, 1979-1981

carton 1, folder 7

Adams. C.R., undated, 1938

carton 1, folder 8

Boyer, Robert S., undated, 1972, 1978-1983

carton 1, folder 9-10

Beesley, E.M., undated, 1940, 1970-1971

carton 1, folder 11

Journal Editors, Plus and Times, 1973-1976

carton 1, folder 12

Taylor, Walter and Mycielski, Jan, 1979

carton 1, folder 13

Web Derivatives, undated, 1969-1973

carton 1, folder 14

Miller Institute Report, 1963

carton 1, folder 15

Krabbe, Gregers L., 1968

 

Series 2: Notes, undated, 1932-1983

carton 1, folder 16-17

Mathematics 80, 1932-1933

carton 1, folder 18-19

General, undated, 1933

carton 1, folder 20

Advanced Calculus, Supplementary Notes, undated

carton 1, folder 21-22

Notes and Manuscripts, undated, 1934-1935

carton 1, folder 23

Invited Addresses, Notes, undated, 1946

carton 1, folder 24

A Scenario for Taylor's Theorem, undated, 1980

carton 1, folder 25

Meta-Theorem, Marchings and Cavalcades, undated, 1980

carton 1, folder 26

The Fundamental Theorem of Algebra, undated

carton 1, folder 27

Introduction to Complex Analysis, undated, 1981

carton 1, folder 28

Unidentified Material, undated, 1973, 1979-1983

carton 1, folder 29

Tarksi-Lindenbaum Interpolation Theorem, undated, 1949

carton 1, folder 30

Some Unknown Complex Variable Theory, undated

 

Series 3: Course Materials, undated, 1928-1972

carton 1, folder 31-35

Math 111, undated, 1965-1968

carton 2, folder 1-2

Math 203, undated

carton 2, folder 3

Integration Seminar, 1963

carton 2, folder 4-5

Odds and Ends, undated, 1950-1964

carton 2, folder 6

Set Theoretic Background, Some Elements of Analysis, 1958-1960

carton 2, folder 7-9

Math 201, undated, 1956-1961

carton 2, folder 10

Math 203, undated

carton 2, folder 11

Math 1B, undated, 1964-1965

carton 2, folder 12

Math 1, circa 1940s

carton 2, folder 13

Math 111A, undated, 1940-1941

carton 2, folder 14

Math 119A, undated, 1954

carton 2, folder 15

Math C, 1944

carton 2, folder 16

Math 2, undated, 1943

carton 2, folder 17

Math 8, 1941

carton 2, folder 18

Math 2A, undated, 1963-1965

carton 3, folder 1

Math 2B, 1964

carton 3, folder 2

Math 3B, 1957, 1959

carton 3, folder 3

Measure Seminar, undated

carton 3, folder 4

Math 122, 1960-1961

carton 3, folder 5

Math 190A, 1972

carton 3, folder 6

Math 104A, undated, 1971

carton 3, folder 7

Math 104B, 1968, 1970, 1972

carton 3, folder 8

Math 12A, 1969

carton 3, folder 9

Student Evaluations, undated, 1940

carton 3, folder 10

PhD Student, Leipnick, undated, 1953

carton 3, folder 11

Thesis, Leipnick, Roy B., undated, 1948-1949

carton 3, folder 12

PhD Student Material, undated, 1928, 1935-1940, 1955

carton 3, folder 13

Thesis, Kenyon, Hewitt, 1954

 

Series 4: Subject Files, undated, 1940-1977, 1990

carton 3, folder 14-17

Other Mathematicians, undated, 1940-1977

carton 3, folder 18

List of Publications, Problems Considered, undated

carton 3, folder 19

Three Ballistic Research Lab Reports, undated, 1945-1947

carton 3, folder 20

Convexicality, undated

carton 3, folder 21

Report, High Altitude Range Bombing by the Aberdeen Bombing Mission, Using Ballistic Cameras, undated, 1945, 1990

 

Series 5: Writings and Publications, undated, 1936-1985

carton 3, folder 22

Miscellaneous Papers, undated

carton 3, folder 23

Convergence Invariation and Related Topics, undated

carton 3, folder 24

A Theory of Covering and Differentiation, undated

carton 4, folder 1

The Rectifiable Subsets of the Plane, undated

carton 4, folder 2

The Role of Internal Families in Measure Theory, undated, 1943-1944

carton 4, folder 3

On Approximating Certain Integrals By Sums, undated, 1942

carton 4, folder 4

Some Properties of Measurable Functions, undated, 1942

carton 4, folder 5

Continous Additive Functions on the Space (BV) and Certain Subspaces, undated, 1939

carton 4, folder 6

Random Sampling in the Evaluation of a Lebesque Integral, undated

carton 4, folder 7

The Behavior of a Function on its Critical Set, undated, 1938

carton 4, folder 8

A Continous Function With No Unilateral Derivatives, undated, 1938

carton 4, folder 9

Odds and Ends, 210, 1951

carton 4, folder 10, folder 33-34

Chapter IV, Measure Theory, undated, 1943, 1946

carton 4, folder 11

Complex Function Theory, undated

carton 4, folder 12

Chapter II, Real Number System, 1939, 1942

carton 4, folder 13

Elementary Set Theory, 1946

carton 4, folder 14

Chapter VI, Lebesque Integral, Chapter VII, Fubine Theorem, 1947

carton 4, folder 15

Chapter I, Elementary Set, Ordinal and Cardinal Theory, 1943

carton 4, folder 16

0, Introduction, undated, 1946

carton 4, folder 17

Chapter I, Elementary Set Theory, 1943

carton 4, folder 18

Chapter 3, Real Variable, undated

carton 4, folder 19

Chapter IV, Metric Spaces, 1939

carton 4, folder 20

Chapter V, Measure, undated, 1942

carton 4, folder 21, folder 32

Chapter V, Linear Measure, undated, 1943

carton 4, folder 22

Chapter VII, Product Measure and the Fubini Theorem, undated

carton 4, folder 23

Chapter VIII, Measure in a Produce Space and the Fubini Theorem, undated

carton 4, folder 24

Chapter VIII, Cover and Differentiation, undated

carton 4, folder 25

Chapter 8, Differentiation, undated

carton 4, folder 26-27

Chapter IX, Classical Differentiation, undated, 1943

carton 4, folder 28-29

Chapter VI, Lebesque Intergal, undated, 1943

carton 4, folder 30

Chapter VI, Measurable Functions and the Lebesque Integral, undated

carton 4, folder 31

Chapter IX, Additive Functions of Sets and Their Derivatives, undated

carton 4, folder 35

Chapter III, Sums, Products of Sets, Equivalence of Sets, 1939-1941

carton 4, folder 36

Chapter II, Real Numbers, undated

carton 4, folder 37-46, carton 5, folder 1-8

Math 210, undated, 1939, 1949-1952

carton 5, folder 9

Gedanken, Remarks on Zeno, undated

carton 5, folder 10

Denny (Jack L.) Paper, 1978

carton 5, folder 11

Plus and Times, Pacific Journal of Mathematics, 1976

carton 5, folder 12

Seperative Relations for Measures, undated, 1970-1973

carton 5, folder 13

General Product Measures, undated, 1969-1971

carton 5, folder 14

Subfunction Structure, Cross Product, Elementary Set Theory, undated

carton 5, folder 15

Topological Correspondences, undated, 1961

carton 5, folder 16

Hayes, Charles, Paper, 1970

carton 5, folder 17

Unidentified Paper, undated, 1954

carton 5, folder 18

Kakutani, Shizuo, Paper, 1951

carton 5, folder 19

Unidentified Paper, undated

carton 5, folder 20

Preliminary and Minor Write-Ups That Were Never Published, undated, 1975-1979

carton 5, folder 21

E.M.B., Warren and Fubini, Like Theorem, undated, 1964-1970

carton 5, folder 22

Convexicality, undated, 1980

carton 5, folder 23

McMinn, Trevor J., Consistency of Regularity in M, undated

carton 5, folder 24

Maudlin, Dan, The Set of Continous Nowhere Differentiation Functions, 1978

carton 5, folder 25

Axiomatizing Set Theory, undated, 1981

carton 5, folder 26

Neveln, Robert and Alps, Robert, A Logic of Existence and Description, undated

carton 5, folder 27

Neveln, Robert, Lagrange Multipliers and the De Morgan Law, undated, 1981

carton 5, folder 28

On Intervals of Prescribed Lengths, undated, 1953

carton 5, folder 29

Deni Derivatives of Continous Functions, undated, 1939

carton 5, folder 30

Besicovitch, A.S. and Taylor, S.J., On a Problem of A.P. Morse, 1951

carton 5, folder 31

McKinsey, Sugar and Suppes, Axiomatic Foundations of Classical Particle Mechanics, 1952

carton 5, folder 32

Odds and Ends in Preparation for Indexes, A Theory of Sets, undated, 1964-1965

carton 5, folder 33

Unidentified Paper, undated, 1950-1954, 1968

carton 5, folder 34

Some Aspects of Covering Theory, undated

carton 5, folder 35

Convexical Blankets, undated, 1950

carton 5, folder 36

Various Papers, undated, 1961-1965

carton 5, folder 37

Product Measures, 1954-1955

carton 5, folder 38

Fixed Sets and Bipartition, Regularity and Choice, A Topological Measure Construction, Finite and Infinite Product Measures, undated, 1960

carton 5, folder 39

General Product Measures, Invariant Measures, Abstract of Images of Measures of Sets, undated, 1963

carton 5, folder 40

Unidentified Paper, undated

carton 5, folder 41

Perfect Blankets, undated, 1946

carton 6, folder 1-5

Reprints, 1936-1976

carton 6, folder 6

Foundations, Well-Ordering, undated

carton 6, folder 7

Convex Functions and Sets, undated

carton 6, folder 8

Logical Proofs, undated

carton 6, folder 9-14

Web Derivatives, 1964-1973

carton 6, folder 15

Integration, undated

carton 6, folder 16

Untitled, undated

carton 6, folder 17

Untitled, undated, 1944

carton 6, folder 18

Lectures Given at U.C., Fall, 1939

carton 6, folder 19-21

Real Variables, 1944

carton 6, folder 22

Internal Families, undated

carton 6, folder 23

Taylor's Theorem, undated

carton 6, folder 24

Convergence in Variation and Related Topics, 1936

carton 6, folder 25

Covering Theorems, Differentiation, undated

carton 6, folder 26

Squares are Normal, undated

carton 6, folder 27

Runs, undated

carton 6, folder 28

Subfunction Structure, 1968-1969

carton 6, folder 29-30, carton 7, folder 1-15

A Theory of Sets, undated, 1965-1985

carton 7, folder 16

Untitled, 1961-1962