Guide to the Gabor Szego Papers SC0323
Note
Biographical/Historical Sketch
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Papers ARCH-1997-022
Chapter drafts, edits, and handwritten notes
Booklets / publications 1950-1967
Miscellaneous mathematics papers
Various correspondence of '35-'59; Math notes.
(Previously unfoldered) Copies of letters from Budapest 1918-1925.
(Previously unfoldered) Convolution Structures for Laguerre Polynomials.
(Hungarian?) Math Journal (some notes)
(Previously loose) Memorandum from Berkeley; Proposal for Approximations Grant; '71 letter; Notes in Hungarian.
Notes in Hungarian
Notes in Hungarian (from enclosed envelope)
Notes in Hungarian
Notes in Hungarian
Essays and Notes in English, Hungarian, French.
1929 Letters & Notes (from enclosed envelope)
1946-47 Letters & Notes (few in English; from enclosed envelope)
(Previously loose) Hebrew Univ. program; Germanic Program; Typed English notes.
From cardboard folder - math notes.
English math notes; perhaps sent from Riverside, CA. (envelope enclosed).
Math notes from enclosed mail folder
Loose-leaf math notes
a) 1949 letter; '49 Slavo-Germanic program; accompanying notes b) Computer print-outs (3); Loose-leaf notes; 1955 letter to & response from Dr. TJ. Higgins, Univ. of Wisconsin.
a) Printed and handwritten notes; Computer printout. b) Scratch(?) paper notes c) 1940, 1914(?) letters & notes d) 1944 bluebook cover (Susan Steindler); Notes; Pages 23-48 of mathematical essay.
a) Mathematical notes and corrections b) Scratch notes; September '69 letter to R.S. Woodruff (Houston Aerospace); Dec 21, 1966 letter from Richard Askey (U. of Wisconsin); Notes on "Positivity of Cotes Numbers for some Ultraspherical Abscissas. "
Brown Binder is from Brown University Advanced Instruction and Research in Mechanics Summer Session, 1942. It is titled, "Geometrical Foundations of Mechanics" - by Hilda Geuinger.
a) "Recent Contributions of the Hungarian School to Conformal Mapping" - G. Szego. b) "Problems and Theorems in Analysis" - G. Polya & G. Szego
a) "Conformal Mapping Related to Torsional Rigidity, Principal Frequency, and Electrostatic Capacity" - G. Szego b) "An Extremum Problem for Polynomials" - 1.1. Schoenberg & G. Szego c) "Note to my Paper 'On Membranes and Plates'" -G. Szego
a) Pamphlet and letter from Max Shiffman b) Pamphlet and letter from Max Shiffman - J.B. Diaz
By G. Szego: "On the Relative Extrema of Legendre Polynomials," "On the Gradient of Solid Harmonic Polynomials," and "On Membranes and Plates. "
American Mathematical Society's Translations Series 2 Volume 108. Extremal Polynomials Associated with a System of Curves in the Complex Plane - Harold Widom 1977, 1969
Section VI Polynomials and Trigonometric Polynomials. Concerning an Early Book in the Theory of Riemann Surfaces - Max Shiffman
Interpolation by Polynomials in and in the Roots of Unity - A. Sharma. Proposed Research on Theory of Riemann Surfaces - Max Shiffman. Lacunary Interpolation in the Roots of Unity - A. Sharma. The Sign of Lommel's function - J. Steinig
A New Set of Coefficient Inequalities for Univalent Functions - M. Schiffer and H.G. Schmidt. Hypergeometric Series Recurrence Relations and some New Orthogonal Functions - James Arthur Wilson. Sur L'ordre de la Meilleure Approximation des Fonctions Continues par des Polynomes de Degre Donne - Serge Bernstein. On Some Markoff Chains - Max Shiffman
Mathematics booklets, pamphlets, and publications
a) Letters from Univ. of Wisconsin's Richard Askey. Letters range from 1966 to 1982. b) Photocopied notes on Gamma Hypergeometric Functions; 1968 letters from R. Askey.
George Gasper's notes on the work of Richard Askey; Further work of Gasper.
Aug. '70; Rough draft of Hallard Croft's "Research Problems in Intuitive Math."
Orthogonal Polynomials & Special Functions -Richard Askey, 1974.
Lecture 1: "Classical results for trigonometric polynomials and Fourier series and other isolated results." Lecture 5: "Linearization by products." Lecture 10: "Suggestions for further work."
a) Tests and scratch work for Math A. b) Math 100 (Adv. Calculus) Autumn 1954/55 c) Algebra A (Autumn 1943)
1966 Telegrams and Letters (re. Hungarian Academy of Sciences) 1970 Letters, etc. (re. Prof. Szego's 75th Birthday)
G. Szego Inaugural Dissertation -April, 1918.
a) Notes in Hungarian from enclosed envelope. b) Math 214 Finals ('63 & '64); Notes.
a) Notes from folder labeled "Infinite Processes .... " 214b. Winter, 1964. b) "Linear Diff. Equations / Complex Variables. 1955 Folder & Notes 206a, 252b."
a) Notes from folder labeled, "Complex Variables 206B (3rd part) / Spring Term 1906 (Zeta Function)." b) From folder marked both"Complex Variables / 206b, c. Advanced Topics / WQ 1953-54. SpQ 1954." and "1. I. i. M. P." c) "Complex Variables 206a. / Winter Quarter 1958-59. Mo, We, Fr 2:15. Beginn. Jan 7; room 370."
a) "Complex Variables / Autumn 1943" b) "Math 206b. Complex Variables II / Winter 1949. Complex Variables III/Spring 1949." c) "206a. Complex Variables / Autumn 1953" d) "Complex Variables II. 206b. 1947-48 Winter Quarter"
More Complex Variables II 206b (Spring 1958)
a) "Infinite Processes, 2nd part / 202b. Winter Quarter 1958-59 Mo, We, Fr 3:15. Beginning Jan 7; room 61H" b) "NumberTheory 152b/Winter, 1964." c) "Number Theory 152a, b." - includes note from student. d) Scratch work (presumably of Prof. Szego). Undated.
a) From envelope marked "D-E." --contains correspondence with W.L. Everitt, A. Dresden, Prof. R.1. Duffin, D.K. Dorge. b) From envelope marked "c." --contains letters from D.R. Curtis, A. Cohen, Ludwig Casper, C. Caratheodory, W.D. Cairns, others.
a) From envelope marked "Hadamard- Hildebreudt." --contains letters from 1. Hadamard, T. Hayashi, A. Heins. b) From envelope marked "1-1." --contains letters from A.E. Ingham, D. Jackson, K. Iseki, M. Ingraham.
a) From envelope marked "Hille" --contains letters from Einar Hille. (Letters date from 1925 to 1946.) b) From envelope marked "F (Faber-Fujiwara)." --contains letters from J. Franck, H. Freudenthal, R. Frucht, M. Fujiwara.
a) From envelope marked "H." --contains letters from H. Hsii, C. Hutchinson, H. Hilton, E. Hopf. b) From envelope marked "A" --contains letters from N. Achyeser, R.c. Archibald, Ardin.
a) From envelope marked "G." --contains letters from H. Geiringer, 1. Geronimus, M. Gottlieb, A Goodman, E.!. Gumbel. b) From envelope marked "Bi-Boas." --contains letters from L. Bieberbach, W. Blasche, H. Bateman, O. Blumenthal.
From envelope marked "B (Bochner-Buffer)." --contains letters from L. Brower, A Bohr, A Brauer, R. Brauer, F. Butter, C.E. Buell, H. Brickner, W. Brecka, 1.R. Britton.
Certificate of Recognition from Encyclopedia Britannica.
From folder marked, "Misc. Current." --contains random documents, etc.
From folder marked, "Important Correspondence." -includes letters from M. Schiah, D.C. Russel, W.S. Dix, W.H. Leahey, A Pal.
From enclosed folder. A variety of letters, documents, etc. (Apparently somewhat important, if disorganized, stuff.)
Schaeffer-Szego Correspondence.
From folder marked both "M.A Correspondence 1950-1957" and "Fellowships - Scientific Personnel" --contains letters dating from '44 to '57.
a) "Monotonicity Properties of Bessel Functions" b) Szego's correspondences (various dates and names).
From folder labeled "Polya- Szego." --contains reviews of Aufgaben und Lehrsatze der Analysis (by G. Polya & G. Szego); some programs; 1968 letter from Polya.
From folder marked "Polya, Peters, Billingim, etc." --contains mostly letters.
Red book contains 1954 letters from various friends, mostly pertaining to Szego's sixtieth birthday.
Asymptotische Entwicklung der Jacobi-Polynome (Reweisskizze)
Toeplitz Determinants with Singular Generating Functions - Harold Widom
a) Oscillation and Asymptotic Behavior of Solutions of Differential Equations with Retarded Argument - G. Ladas b) Oscillation Caused by Retarded Actions - G. Ladas and V. Lakshmikantham c) Lower Bounds and Uniqueness for Solutions of Evolution Inequalities in a Hilbert Space - G. Ladas and V. Lakshmikantham d) On Some Fundamental Properties of Solutions of Differential Equations in a Banach Space - G. Ladas, G. Ladde, V Lakshmikantham
Unlabeled notes
Notecards
Journal D'analyse Mathematique - Ninyamin Amira
Extremal Plynomials Associated With a System of Curves in the Complex Plane - Harold Widom Multiplier criteria of Hormander type for Fourier series and applications to Jacovi series and Hankel transforms - George Gasper and Walter Trebels
Notes, articles, and correspondence
HP Spaces by Kenneth Hoffman
Publications, journals, pamphlets
Publications, journals, pamphlets (continuations of box 6)
Journals and prints from other mathematicians
lAC / Istituto Per Le Applicazioni Del Calcolo" publications. Series III, Numbers 33-46
lAC. Series III, Numbers 47-61
lAC. Series III, Numbers 62-70
An Extremium Problem for Polynomials" -!.J. Schoenberg & Gabor Szego. (12 copies)
Publicationes Mathematicae -Dec 1961 ed. (23 copies)
"Rendiconti del Seminario Matematico." (2 copies of 1982 publications)
a) "Orthogonal Expansions and Their Continuous Analogues" -From Southern Illinois Univ. 1967. (10 copies) b) "An Inequality for Jacobi Polynomials." -G. Szego. (8 copies)
a) "Recent Advances and Open Questions on the Asymptotic Expansions of Orthogonal Polynomials." 1959 -G. Szego (11 copies) b) Szego's book review of Higher Transcendental Functions, 1954 (13 copies)
a) "On Certain Set Functios Defined By Extremum Properties in the Theory of Functions and in Mathematical Functions." 1950 -G. Szego (5 copies) b) "On Positive Harmonic Polynomials." 1962 -G. Szego (20 copies) c) "An Outline of the History of Orthogonal Polynomials" -G. Szego (1 copy) d) "Corrigenda." 1954 (2 copies) e) "Annali Di Matematica." 1955 (1 copy)
"Journal of the London Mathematical Society." (July 1964 ed.), and "Journal D'Analyse Mathematique." (1981 ed.)
a) "Concerning the Fourier Coefficients of a Nonnegative Function." 1960 -G. Szego (multiple copies) b) "On Bi-orthogonal Systems of Trigonometric Polynomials." 1964 -G. Szego (7 copies) c) "An extremum Problem for Polynomials." 1960 -1.J. Schoenberg and G. Szego (4 copies)
"Istanbul Teknic Universitesi Buleteni" (5 issues) 1956-1975
"Journal d'Analyse Mathematique" (4 issues) 1965, 1970
Contents of October 4, 1973 envelope from "J. Wiley & Sons, Inc. Publishers, New York." Multiple pages of math problems.
Misc. items from envelope marked "R.Askey." --contains a number of small pamphlets, labeled, "R. Accademia Delle Scienze," "Sur Ie Probleme Des Moments," and "Matematikai Lapok." Also contains postcards, letters to Szego, and an Oregon Mathematical periodical.
a) From folder marked "Dartmouth" --contains letters from 1. W. Young. b) From folder marked "Polya Anniversary 1964" --contains letters from M. Plancherel and the Polya Anniv. Volume's original art.
Letters from Mount Holyoke a) Letters from A. Walfisz b) Letters from G.N. Watson c) Letters to Polya
a) From folder labeled "Polya." --contains letters from Gurland, Boas, others; and pages of mathematical notes b) From folder labeled "Toeplitz: copies 4,5,6."
Contents labeled (presumably by Szego), "Original Corrections.
Contents labeled (presumably by Szego), "Askey Proofs & Letter.
Contents labeled (presumably by Szego), "Copy of Proofs for G. Szego.
Random Letters, Notes, Publications.
Bau Beacon 1945 publication; Photocopies of math notes in Hungarian.
From envelope labeled "Wiew(?) 1918." a) Stanford Appointments b) Letters, Documents, Honorary statements, Math notes.
From envelope marked "Szolnok." --contains various documents, letters, statements ....
From folder labeled "Veronica Szego" and "Claude & Marie-Antoinette." --contains several letters, documents, and reminisces, in addition to a small book called "Rendiconti del Seminario Matematico."
From envelope labeled, "Mr. Szego." --contains an assortment ofletters, invitations, statements, documents, photographs, notes, etc.
From folder marked "Germany; Nazi Period.
From folder marked "Germany Before Nazis
From folder marked "St. Louis Time
Five booklets: "Hankel Operations, Best Approximations and Stationary Gaussian Processes I" - Peller & Hruscev; "Isoperimetric Inequalities in Mathematical Physics" -Szego & Polya; "Einar Hille" -Nelson Dinford; "Matematikai Lapok" - H. Janos; and "News & Views, 1982 ed."
Szego papers, journals, and some correspondence
Math 115
Spring '47
Math 132
Hungary [newspaper clippings]
Photographs, correspondence, notes 1918-1935, 1975
Admiralty Computing Service Department of Scientific Research and Experiment. Dictionary of Conformal Representations. Parts 3 and 4 - H. Kober
Correspondence and photographs 1918-1934, 1949
Miscellaneous 1944-1945
Math 130 1943-1944 Autumn
Math 119 1949
Math 115 / 116 1953-1954
Vector - Analysis 1955-1956 Winter
Math 160. Math 112. Math 161 1945-1949
Army class 4A 1943
Math B
Personal correspondence, Academic Wien [?], list of publications 1910-1948
Postcards and photographs
Math 142 1953
IAC publications
Various journals and publications
Kolley uber Fouriersche Reihen [illegible]
Differentialrechning [illegible] 1925-1926
Loose notes
Ubungen zur Insegralrechung [?] 1926
"Variationsrechnung" 1926-1931
Ubunger en Diff. Ins. R. III [?] 1929
Die Differentialgleichenger der mathematischen Physics. 1927-1928
Ubenger [illegible] Integralrechnung Differentialgleichungen [?] 1922
Differentialgleichungen
Differentialgleichungen [?] math. physic 1930
Loose notes
Differentialgleichungen mis Ubungen 1922
Number theory 1931-1932
Integral equations - Fourier's series and summability
Novikoff
Ortho gonat polynomials 252a 1961 Winter
Orth. polynomials 1954-1955
Analysis theory of Numbers 1958-1959
Toeplitz forms 1959
Math. 207 Cal. of Variations
208 1947
230 1947
Orth. polynomials 1964
Orth. polynomials 1965
Th. of Approx. 1963
Differentialgeometic
Bestimmre Integrale - Fouriersche Reihen. 1921-1922
Math. fundamentals to Mech. 1941
Notes
Fourier series / Fourier Analysis 1959-1962
Polya
Fourier Series and Approximations 1958
[illegible] polynomials
Misc.
Desc. Geo. - Peter Szego
Unlabeled envelope
Unlabeled envelope
Scans of handwritten notes 1928-1955
Books: Ergebnisse Der Funktionentheorie - Dr. E. Landau ; Mathematikai es Physikai Lapok - Huszadik Kotet ; Theorie Der Algebraischen Zahlen - E. Hecke ; Die Lehre Von Den Kettenbrilchen - Dr. Oskar Perron ; On the Theory of Bessel Functions - G.N. Watson ; Orthogonal Polynomials - Gabor Szego (2)
Notebook titled "Selected Problems in the Theory of Functions by Professor Gabriel Szego" 1935
2 bound volumes filled with mathematics journals and articles
Five portraits and two small pins
Addenda, 1985-036 ARCH-1989-036
Postcards and correspondence 1919-1923, 1955
Photographs
"Papers" [German mathematics journal articles] 1915-1928
Diploma of recognition from Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften 1960
Commemorative medals. Photographs. Music records. One records with "10 minute discussion in German on mathematics and importance of using mathematics to interpret nature - speaker unknown"
Certificates and recognitions