Overview
Administrative Information
Biography
Collection Scope and Content Summary
Access Terms
Overview
Call Number: SC0654
Creator:
Schiffer, M. M.
Title: M. M. Schiffer Papers
Dates: 1953-1979
Physical Description:
4 Linear feet
Summary: Book chapter, articles, lectures, and some correspondence dating from Schiffer's tenure at Stanford University.
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Dept. of Special Collections & University Archives.
Stanford University Libraries.
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: speccollref@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc
Administrative Information
Provenance
Transfer from Mathematics Library, 2002
Information about Access
There are no restrictions on access.
Ownership & Copyright
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.
Cite As
M.M. Schiffer Papers (SC0654). Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford,
Calif.
Biography
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.
Collection Scope and Content Summary
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.
Access Terms
Corput, J. G. van der (Johannes Gualtherus), b. 1890.
Fuller, Robert W.
Minorsky, Nicolai, 1885-
Conformal mapping.
Functions of complex variables.
General relativity (Physics)--Mathematics.
Mathematics--Scientific applications.
Mathematics.