Guide to the Benjamin Abram Bernstein papers, 1901-1963

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Guide to the Benjamin Abram Bernstein Papers, 1901-1963

Collection number: BANC MSS C-B 969

The Bancroft Library

University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley, California

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Phone: (510) 642-6481
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Email: bancref@library.berkeley.edu
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Collection Summary

Collection Title: Benjamin Abram Bernstein Papers,

Date (inclusive): 1901-1963

Collection Number: BANC MSS C-B 969

Creator: Bernstein, Benjamin Abram

Extent: Number of containers: 1 box, 3 cartons and 1 oversize folder

Repository: The Bancroft Library

Berkeley, California 94720-6000

Physical Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.

Abstract: Correspondence, manuscripts of articles, notes and related papers concerning his career as professor of mathematics, University of California, Berkeley.

Languages Represented: English

Information for Researchers

Access

Collection is open for research.

Publication Rights

Copyright has not been assigned to The Bancroft Library. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Public Services. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Bancroft Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the reader.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Benjamin Abram Bernstein, BANC MSS C-B 969, The Bancroft Library, Universtity of California, Berkeley

Administrative Information

Acquisition Information

The papers were given to the Bancroft Library by Bernstein's daughter, Mrs. Tybel Litwin, in March and April 1965. A few papers were transferred from the University Archives in February, 1965.

Biography

Benjamin Abram Bernstein, mathematician, born in 1881 in Posvol, Lithuania, came to the United States as a child in 1891. He took his degree at Johns Hopkins and did his graduate work at the University of California in Berkeley. Teaching at the University of California since 1907, he specialized in postulate theory, Boolean algebra and the mathematics of logic, and published many articles in professional journals.

Scope and Content

The collection includes correspondence, manuscripts of various articles, some papers relating to the teaching of courses, papers contributed by students, and copious mathematical notes.

A key to arrangement follows, and a partial list of correspondents is appended.

Box 1:

Outgoing letters of Bernstein, 1921-1963

Incoming letters: single items placed in A-Z miscellany, followed by folders containing twoor more items, arranged alphabetically.

Carton 1:

Bibliography

Biography

Exams, reading lists

Translations

Mss. of articles, arranged alphabetically by title

Student papers, arranged alphabetically by name of student

Miscellany (includes snapshots of Yosemite and the Canadian Rockies, 1914 diary of trip to Palestine and Europe, etc.)

Carton 2:

Math notes, roughly sorted by subject

Carton 3:

School papers, themes and compositions

Notes (in notebooks, mainly re mathematics)

portfolio Oversize portfolio:

Diplomas, etc.

A-Z Miscellany (Single items)

American Journal of Mathematics

Letter, Jan. 17, 1935 by A. Cohen

Church, Alonzo, 1903-

Letter, May 11, 1944

Ficken, Frederick Arthur, 1910-

Letter, n. d.

Foster, Alfred Leon, 1904-

Letter, May 8, 1932

Foster, Ronald Martin, 1896-

Letter, May 29, 1936

Griffin, Edward Herrick, 1843-1929

Letter, n.d.

Hardy, Godfrey Harold, 1877-1947

Letter, May 20, 1932

Humphreys, Milton Wylie, 1844-

Letter, Feb. 24, 1906

Hurwitz, Wallie Abraham, 1886-

Letter, Sept. 30, 1921

Journal of Symbolic Logic

Letter, Nov. 10, 1953 by S.C. Kleene

Langford, Cooper Harold, 1895-

Letter, June 11, 1928

MacLane, Saunders, 1909-

Letter, Aug. 1, l934

McMurray, Orrin Kip, 1869-

Letter, Sept. 5, 1918

Mathematical Reviews

Letter, Apr. 10, 1943 by O. Neugebauer

Moore, RobertLee, 1882-

Letter, May 19, 1922

Parker, William Lawrence, 1921-

Letter, Apr. 2, 1953

Peano, Giuseppe, 1858-

Postcard, Feb. 29, 1928

Re, Alfonso del, 1859-

Postcard, Feb. 22, 1917

San Francisco Bulletin

Letter, July 28, 1945 by Oscar Ingels

Sánchez Díaz, Rafael, 1901-

Letter, May 5, 1943

Stabler, Edward Russel, 1906-

Letter, Aug. 30, 1944

Stone, Marshall Harvey, 1903-

Letter, Nov. 3, 1933

Valpola, Veli

Letter, Dec. 12, 1957

Ward, Morgan

Letter, Apr. 20, 1936

Whittaker, Sir Edmund Taylor, 1873-

Letter, May 17, 1934

Wisconsin, University

Letter, Apr. 11, 1947 by R.E. Langer

Wolf, Frantisek

Letter, Feb. 19, 1945

American Mathematical Society

14 letters, 1925-1944, by C. C. MacDuffee, A. D. Michal, D. R. Curtiss, J.R. Kline, R. D. Carmichael, W. R. Longley, A. B. Coble, H. H. Mitchell and others, re articles for the Society.

See also Hedrick, Earle Raymond.

Annals of Mathematics

2 letters, 1929-1938, by E. Hille and A. W. Tucker

Association for Symbolic Logic

13 letters, l937-1947, mainly by Haskell B. Curry. Miscellaneous papers of the Association placed at end of folder.

California. University

14 letters, 1907-1962, by Paul H. Daus, Alfred Tarski, Irving Stringham, M. E. Deutsch, R. G. Sproul and others.

Carmichael, Robert Daniel, 1879-

see

American Mathematical Society

Chao, Yüan-jen, 1892-

2 letters, 1939

Coble, Arthur Byron, 1878-

see

American Mathematical Society

Cohen, Abraham, 1870-

see

American Journal of Mathematics

Curry, Haskell Brooks, 1900-

see

Association for Symbolic Logic

Curtiss, David Raymond, 1878-1953

see

American Mathematical Society

Daus, Paul Harold, 1894-

see

California. University

Deutsch, Monroe Emanuel, 1879-1955

see

California. University

Dürr, Karl

2 letters, 1958

Ginsburg, Jekuthiel, 1889-

see

Scripta Mathematica

Greene, Herbert Eveleth, 1858-

2 letters, 1905

Hedrick, Earle Raymond, 1876-1943

44 letters, 1907-1937.

Scope and Content Note

Some written as editor, American Mathematical Society Bulletin.

Hille, Einar

see

Annals of Mathematics

Huntington, Edward Vermilye, 1874-

9 letters, 1914-1936

Keyser, Cassius Jackson, 1862-1947

7 letters, 1921-1931

Kleene, Stephen Cole, 1909-

see

Journal of Symbolic Logic

Kline, John Robert, 1891-1955

see

American Mathematical Society

Ladd-Franklin, Christine, l847-1930

6 letters, 1917-1929

Langer, Rudolph Ernest, 1894-

see

Wisconsin. University

Levit, Robert Jules, 1916-

3 letters, 1942-1944

Lewis, Clarence Irving, 1883-

6 letters, 1932-1933

Longley, William Raymond, 1880-

see

American Mathematical Society

MacDuffee, Cyrus Colton, 1895-

see

American Mathematical Society

McKinsey, John Charles Chenoweth, 1908-

5 letters, 1934-1945

Michal, Aristotle D, 1899-

see

American Mathematical Society

Mitchell, Howard Hawks, 1885-1943

see

American Mathematical Society

Morley, Frank, 1860-1937

3 letters, 1905-1919

Neugebauer, Otto, 1899-

see

Mathematical Reviews

Philbrick, Francis, 1876-

2 letters, 1920-1925

Pierpont, James, 1886-1938

3 letters, 1930-1933

Scripta Mathematica

3 letters, 1934-1951, by J. Ginsburg

Sheldon, William Herbert, 1899-

2 letters, 1929

Sproul, Robert Gordon, 1891-

see

California. University

Stringham, Irving, 1847-1909

see

California. University

Tarski, Alfred, 1903-

see

California. University

Tucker, Albert William, 1905-

see

Annals of Mathematics

Winther, Fritz, 1881-

3 postcards, 1920-1926