Guide to the Gabor Szego Papers SC0323

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Contributing Institution: Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Title: Gabor Szego papers
Identifier/Call Number: SC0323
Physical Description: 30.5 Linear Feet
Date (inclusive): circa 1910-1980
Abstract: Professional and personal correspondence, ephemera, manuscripts, photographs, technical reports and publications, ca. 1910 to 1980.

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Gabor Szego Papers (SC0323). Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

Biographical/Historical Sketch

Mathematician. Professor of Mathematics at Stanford University and chairman of the department from 1938 to 1958. He retired in 1960 as an emeriti professor. An authority on complex mathematical analysis, orthogonal polynomials and applied mathematics, Szego was born in Kunhegyes, Hungary and received his doctoral degree from the University of Vienna in 1918. He taught in Budapest, Berlin and Koenigsberg before coming to the United States in 1934. He taught for four years at the Washington University in St. Louis before joining the faculty at Stanford. His book with Stanford professor George Polya, AUFGABEN UND LEHAETZE AUS DER ANALYSIS (Problems and Theorems in Analysis), first published in Berlin in 1924, is considered a classic in the field.

Description of the Collection

Professional and personal correspondence, ephemera, manuscripts, photographs, technical reports and publications, ca. 1910 to 1980.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Mathematical analysis.
Mathematics.
Science -- History.
Szegő, Gábor
Stanford University. Department of Mathematics. Faculty

 

Papers ARCH-1997-022

Box 1

Chapter drafts, edits, and handwritten notes

Box 2

Booklets / publications 1950-1967

Box 2

Miscellaneous mathematics papers

Box 3, folder 1

Various correspondence of '35-'59; Math notes.

Box 3, folder 2

(Previously unfoldered) Copies of letters from Budapest 1918-1925.

Box 3, folder 3

(Previously unfoldered) Convolution Structures for Laguerre Polynomials.

Box 3, folder 4

(Hungarian?) Math Journal (some notes)

Box 3, folder 5

(Previously loose) Memorandum from Berkeley; Proposal for Approximations Grant; '71 letter; Notes in Hungarian.

Box 3, folder 6

Notes in Hungarian

Box 3, folder 7

Notes in Hungarian (from enclosed envelope)

Box 3, folder 8

Notes in Hungarian

Box 3, folder 9

Notes in Hungarian

Box 3, folder 10

Essays and Notes in English, Hungarian, French.

Box 3, folder 11

1929 Letters & Notes (from enclosed envelope)

Box 3, folder 12

1946-47 Letters & Notes (few in English; from enclosed envelope)

Box 3, folder 13

(Previously loose) Hebrew Univ. program; Germanic Program; Typed English notes.

Box 3, folder 14

From cardboard folder - math notes.

Box 3, folder 15

English math notes; perhaps sent from Riverside, CA. (envelope enclosed).

Box 3, folder 16

Math notes from enclosed mail folder

Box 3, folder 17

Loose-leaf math notes

Box 3, folder 18

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.

Box 3, folder 19

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.

Box 3, folder 20

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. "

Box 3

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.

Box 4, folder 1

a) "Recent Contributions of the Hungarian School to Conformal Mapping" - G. Szego. b) "Problems and Theorems in Analysis" - G. Polya & G. Szego

Box 4, folder 2

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

Box 4, folder 3

a) Pamphlet and letter from Max Shiffman b) Pamphlet and letter from Max Shiffman - J.B. Diaz

Box 4, folder 4

By G. Szego: "On the Relative Extrema of Legendre Polynomials," "On the Gradient of Solid Harmonic Polynomials," and "On Membranes and Plates. "

Box 4, folder 5

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

Box 4, folder 6

Section VI Polynomials and Trigonometric Polynomials. Concerning an Early Book in the Theory of Riemann Surfaces - Max Shiffman

Box 4, folder 7

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

Box 4, folder 8

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

Box 4

Mathematics booklets, pamphlets, and publications

Box 5, folder 1

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.

Box 5, folder 2

George Gasper's notes on the work of Richard Askey; Further work of Gasper.

Box 5, folder 3

Aug. '70; Rough draft of Hallard Croft's "Research Problems in Intuitive Math."

Box 5, folder 4

Orthogonal Polynomials & Special Functions -Richard Askey, 1974.

Box 5, folder 5

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."

Box 5, folder 6

a) Tests and scratch work for Math A. b) Math 100 (Adv. Calculus) Autumn 1954/55 c) Algebra A (Autumn 1943)

Box 5, folder 7

1966 Telegrams and Letters (re. Hungarian Academy of Sciences) 1970 Letters, etc. (re. Prof. Szego's 75th Birthday)

Box 5, folder 8

G. Szego Inaugural Dissertation -April, 1918.

Box 5, folder 9

a) Notes in Hungarian from enclosed envelope. b) Math 214 Finals ('63 & '64); Notes.

Box 5, folder 10

a) Notes from folder labeled "Infinite Processes .... " 214b. Winter, 1964. b) "Linear Diff. Equations / Complex Variables. 1955 Folder & Notes 206a, 252b."

Box 5, folder 11

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."

Box 5, folder 12

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"

Box 5, folder 13

More Complex Variables II 206b (Spring 1958)

Box 5, folder 14

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.

Box 5, folder 15

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.

Box 5, folder 16

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.

Box 5, folder 17

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.

Box 5, folder 18

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.

Box 5, folder 19

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.

Box 5, folder 20

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.

Box 5, folder 21

Certificate of Recognition from Encyclopedia Britannica.

Box 5, folder 22

From folder marked, "Misc. Current." --contains random documents, etc.

Box 5, folder 23

From folder marked, "Important Correspondence." -includes letters from M. Schiah, D.C. Russel, W.S. Dix, W.H. Leahey, A Pal.

Box 5, folder 24

From enclosed folder. A variety of letters, documents, etc. (Apparently somewhat important, if disorganized, stuff.)

Box 5, folder 25

Schaeffer-Szego Correspondence.

Box 5, folder 26

From folder marked both "M.A Correspondence 1950-1957" and "Fellowships - Scientific Personnel" --contains letters dating from '44 to '57.

Box 5, folder 27

a) "Monotonicity Properties of Bessel Functions" b) Szego's correspondences (various dates and names).

Box 5, folder 28

From folder labeled "Polya- Szego." --contains reviews of Aufgaben und Lehrsatze der Analysis (by G. Polya & G. Szego); some programs; 1968 letter from Polya.

Box 5, folder 29

From folder marked "Polya, Peters, Billingim, etc." --contains mostly letters.

Box 5

Red book contains 1954 letters from various friends, mostly pertaining to Szego's sixtieth birthday.

Box 6, folder 1

Asymptotische Entwicklung der Jacobi-Polynome (Reweisskizze)

Box 6, folder 2

Toeplitz Determinants with Singular Generating Functions - Harold Widom

Box 6, folder 3

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

Box 6, folder 4

Unlabeled notes

Box 6, folder 5

Notecards

Box 6, folder 6

Journal D'analyse Mathematique - Ninyamin Amira

Box 6, folder 7

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

Box 6, folder 8

Notes, articles, and correspondence

Box 6, folder 9-10

HP Spaces by Kenneth Hoffman

Box 6

Publications, journals, pamphlets

Box 6A

Publications, journals, pamphlets (continuations of box 6)

Box 7

Journals and prints from other mathematicians

Box 8, folder 1

lAC / Istituto Per Le Applicazioni Del Calcolo" publications. Series III, Numbers 33-46

Box 8, folder 2

lAC. Series III, Numbers 47-61

Box 8, folder 3

lAC. Series III, Numbers 62-70

Box 8, folder 4

An Extremium Problem for Polynomials" -!.J. Schoenberg & Gabor Szego. (12 copies)

Box 8, folder 5

Publicationes Mathematicae -Dec 1961 ed. (23 copies)

Box 8, folder 6

"Rendiconti del Seminario Matematico." (2 copies of 1982 publications)

Box 8, folder 7

a) "Orthogonal Expansions and Their Continuous Analogues" -From Southern Illinois Univ. 1967. (10 copies) b) "An Inequality for Jacobi Polynomials." -G. Szego. (8 copies)

Box 8, folder 8

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)

Box 8, folder 9

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)

Box 8, folder 10

"Journal of the London Mathematical Society." (July 1964 ed.), and "Journal D'Analyse Mathematique." (1981 ed.)

Box 8, folder 11

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)

Box 8, folder 12

"Istanbul Teknic Universitesi Buleteni" (5 issues) 1956-1975

Box 8, folder 13

"Journal d'Analyse Mathematique" (4 issues) 1965, 1970

Box 9, folder 1

Contents of October 4, 1973 envelope from "J. Wiley & Sons, Inc. Publishers, New York." Multiple pages of math problems.

Box 9, folder 2

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.

Box 9, folder 3

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.

Box 9, folder 4

Letters from Mount Holyoke a) Letters from A. Walfisz b) Letters from G.N. Watson c) Letters to Polya

Box 9, folder 5

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."

Box 9, folder 6

Contents labeled (presumably by Szego), "Original Corrections.

Box 9, folder 7

Contents labeled (presumably by Szego), "Askey Proofs & Letter.

Box 9, folder 8

Contents labeled (presumably by Szego), "Copy of Proofs for G. Szego.

Box 9, folder 9

Random Letters, Notes, Publications.

Box 9, folder 10

Bau Beacon 1945 publication; Photocopies of math notes in Hungarian.

Box 9, folder 11

From envelope labeled "Wiew(?) 1918." a) Stanford Appointments b) Letters, Documents, Honorary statements, Math notes.

Box 9, folder 12

From envelope marked "Szolnok." --contains various documents, letters, statements ....

Box 9, folder 13

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."

Box 9, folder 14

From envelope labeled, "Mr. Szego." --contains an assortment ofletters, invitations, statements, documents, photographs, notes, etc.

Box 9, folder 15

From folder marked "Germany; Nazi Period.

Box 9, folder 16

From folder marked "Germany Before Nazis

Box 9, folder 17

From folder marked "St. Louis Time

Box 9, folder 18

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."

Box 10

Szego papers, journals, and some correspondence

Box 11, folder 1

Math 115

Box 11, folder 2

Spring '47

Box 11, folder 3

Math 132

Box 11, folder 4

Hungary [newspaper clippings]

Box 11, folder 5

Photographs, correspondence, notes 1918-1935, 1975

Box 11, folder 6

Admiralty Computing Service Department of Scientific Research and Experiment. Dictionary of Conformal Representations. Parts 3 and 4 - H. Kober

Box 11, folder 7

Correspondence and photographs 1918-1934, 1949

Box 11, folder 8

Miscellaneous 1944-1945

Box 11, folder 9

Math 130 1943-1944 Autumn

Box 11, folder 10

Math 119 1949

Box 11, folder 11

Math 115 / 116 1953-1954

Box 11, folder 12

Vector - Analysis 1955-1956 Winter

Box 11, folder 13

Math 160. Math 112. Math 161 1945-1949

Box 11, folder 14

Army class 4A 1943

Box 11, folder 15

Math B

Box 11, folder 16

Personal correspondence, Academic Wien [?], list of publications 1910-1948

Box 11, folder 17

Postcards and photographs

Box 11, folder 18

Math 142 1953

Box 11

IAC publications

Box 11

Various journals and publications

Box 12, folder 1

Kolley uber Fouriersche Reihen [illegible]

Box 12, folder 2

Differentialrechning [illegible] 1925-1926

Box 12, folder 3

Loose notes

Box 12

Ubungen zur Insegralrechung [?] 1926

Box 12, folder 5

"Variationsrechnung" 1926-1931

Box 12, folder 6

Ubunger en Diff. Ins. R. III [?] 1929

Box 12, folder 7

Die Differentialgleichenger der mathematischen Physics. 1927-1928

Box 12, folder 8

Ubenger [illegible] Integralrechnung Differentialgleichungen [?] 1922

Box 12, folder 9

Differentialgleichungen

Box 12, folder 10

Differentialgleichungen [?] math. physic 1930

Box 12, folder 11

Loose notes

Box 12, folder 12

Differentialgleichungen mis Ubungen 1922

Box 12, folder 13

Number theory 1931-1932

Box 12, folder 14

Integral equations - Fourier's series and summability

Box 12, folder 15

Novikoff

Box 12, folder 16

Ortho gonat polynomials 252a 1961 Winter

Box 12, folder 17

Orth. polynomials 1954-1955

Box 12, folder 18

Analysis theory of Numbers 1958-1959

Box 12, folder 19

Toeplitz forms 1959

Box 12, folder 20

Math. 207 Cal. of Variations

Box 12, folder 21

208 1947

Box 12, folder 22

230 1947

Box 12, folder 23

Orth. polynomials 1964

Box 12, folder 24

Orth. polynomials 1965

Box 12, folder 25

Th. of Approx. 1963

Box 12, folder 26

Differentialgeometic

Box 12, folder 27

Bestimmre Integrale - Fouriersche Reihen. 1921-1922

Box 12, folder 28

Math. fundamentals to Mech. 1941

Box 12, folder 29

Notes

Box 12, folder 30

Fourier series / Fourier Analysis 1959-1962

Box 12, folder 31

Polya

Box 12, folder 32

Fourier Series and Approximations 1958

Box 12, folder 33

[illegible] polynomials

Box 12, folder 34

Misc.

Box 12, folder 35

Desc. Geo. - Peter Szego

Box 12, folder 36-44

Unlabeled envelope

folder 12A, folder 1

Unlabeled envelope

folder 12A, folder 2-3

Scans of handwritten notes 1928-1955

Box 13

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)

Box 14

Notebook titled "Selected Problems in the Theory of Functions by Professor Gabriel Szego" 1935

Box 14

2 bound volumes filled with mathematics journals and articles

Box 15

Five portraits and two small pins

 

Addenda, 1985-036 ARCH-1989-036

Box 1, folder 1

Postcards and correspondence 1919-1923, 1955

Box 1, folder 2

Photographs

Box 2

"Papers" [German mathematics journal articles] 1915-1928

Box 3

Diploma of recognition from Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften 1960

Box 4

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"

Box 5

Certificates and recognitions