Guide to the Joseph B. Keller Papers SC0899

Daniel Hartwig & Jenny Johnson
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
October 2010
Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford 94305-6064
specialcollections@stanford.edu

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Language of Material: English
Contributing Institution: Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Title: Joseph B. Keller papers
Identifier/Call Number: SC0899
Physical Description: 20.5 Linear Feet 30 boxes
Date (inclusive): 1949-2007
Abstract: These papers consist primarily of correspondence files maintained by Keller from 1949-2007. Also included are article reviews and refereeing reports, honorary degrees and other awards, and course evaluations, as well as figures and problems.
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Cite As

Joseph B. Keller Papers (SC0899). Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

Biographical/Historical Sketch

Joseph B. Keller is Professor Emeritus of Mathematics and of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University, and former Honorary Professor of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Cambridge. Born in Paterson, New Jersey in 1923, Keller earned all three of his degrees at New York University: B.A. in 1943, M.S. in 1946, and Ph.D. in 1948. He remained there as a Professor of Mathematics in the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences until 1979, when he moved to Stanford University, where he continues to conduct his research.

Description of the Collection

These papers consist primarily of correspondence files maintained by Keller from 1949-2007. Also included are article reviews and refereeing reports, honorary degrees and other awards, and course evaluations, as well as figures and problems.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Mathematics -- Study and teaching.
Stanford University. Department of Mechanical Engineering
Stanford University. Department of Mathematics

 

Series 1. Correspondence

Box 1, folder 1

Correspondence, 1949-1960

Box 1, folder 2

1961-1966

Box 1, folder 3

1967-1970

Box 1, folder 4

1971-1972

Box 1, folder 5

January 1973-December 1973

Box 2, folder 1

January 1947-August 1975

Box 2, folder 2

September 1975-June 1976

Box 2, folder 3

July 1976-January 1978

Box 2, folder 4

April 1977-December 1977

Box 3, folder 1

January 1978-May 1978

Box 3, folder 2

August 1979-February 1980

Box 3, folder 3

March 1980-December 1980

Box 3, folder 4

July 1980-December 1980

Box 3, folder 5

January 1981-June 1981

Box 4, folder 1

January 1981-June 1981

Box 4, folder 2

July 1981-December 1981

Box 4, folder 3

January 1, 1982-June 30, 1982

Box 4, folder 4

July 1, 1982-December 31, 1982

Box 4, folder 5

January 1, 1983-April 1, 1983

Box 5, folder 1

April 1, 1983-June 30, 1983

Box 5, folder 2

July 1, 1983-August 1983

Box 5, folder 3

October 1983-February 1984

Box 5, folder 4

February 1984-July 1984

Box 5, folder 5

September 1984-January, 1985

Box 6, folder 1

September 1984-April 1985

Box 6, folder 2

October 1984-April 1985

Box 6, folder 3

May 1985-August 1985

Box 6, folder 4

Correspondence from various files, contracts, etc. circa 1977-1985

Box 7, folder 1

October 1985-March 1986

Box 7, folder 2

September 1986-December 1986

Box 7, folder 3

1986

Box 7, folder 4

1987

Box 8, folder 1

1987

Box 8, folder 2

1987

Box 8, folder 3

1987-1988

Box 8, folder 4

1988

Box 8, folder 5

1988

Box 9, folder 1

1988

Box 9, folder 2

1988

Box 9, folder 3

1988

Box 9, folder 4

1989

Box 9, folder 5

1989

Box 10, folder 1

1989

Box 10, folder 2

1989

Box 10, folder 3

1989-1990

Box 10, folder 4

1989-1990

Box 10, folder 5

1989-1990

Box 10, folder 6

1990-1991

Box 11, folder 1

1990-1991

Box 11, folder 2

1991

Box 11, folder 3

1991

Box 11, folder 4

1991

Box 11, folder 5

1991-1992

Box 12, folder 1

1991-1992

Box 12, folder 2

September 1992-December 1992

Box 12, folder 3

1993

Box 12, folder 4

1993

Box 12, folder 5

1993

Box 12, folder 6

1993-1994

Box 13, folder 1

1992-1994

Box 13, folder 2

1992-1994

Box 13, folder 3

1994

Box 13, folder 4

1989-1995

Box 13, folder 5

1995

Box 13, folder 6

1995

Box 14, folder 1

1993-1996

Box 14, folder 2

1988-1996

Box 14, folder 3

1995-1997

Box 14, folder 4

Spring 1997

Box 14, folder 5

1997

Box 14, folder 6

Correspondence with Jesse Goldberg 1997-1998

Box 15, folder 1

1996-1998

Box 15, folder 2

1997

Box 15, folder 3

1997-1998

Box 15, folder 4

1998

Box 15, folder 5

1994-1999

Box 16, folder 1

1998-1999

Box 16, folder 2

1999

Box 16, folder 3

1999-2000

Box 16, folder 4

1999-2000

Box 16, folder 5

2000

Box 17, folder 1

2000

Box 17, folder 2

2000-2001

Box 17, folder 3

2000-2001

Box 17, folder 4

2000-2001

Box 17, folder 5

2000-2001

Box 17, folder 6

2001

Box 18, folder 1

2001-2002

Box 18, folder 2

2001-2002

Box 18, folder 3

2002

Box 18, folder 4

2002-2003

Box 18, folder 5

2002-2004

Box 18, folder 6

2000-2004

Box 19, folder 1

2004-2005

Box 19, folder 2

2005-2007

 

Series 2. Miscellaneous

Box 19, folder 3

Calendars, 1981-1985

Box 19, folder 4

Figures

Box 19, folder 5

Figures: Reflected rays

Box 19, folder 6

Lecture notes, problems

Box 19, folder 7

Course Evaluations-Stanford & UCLA

Box 19, folder 8

Old Applicants

Box 19, folder 9

Articles reviewed, July 1964-1967

Box 20, folder 1

Articles reviewed, January 1968-September 1974

Box 20, folder 2

Articles reviewed, January 1975-December 1980

Box 20, folder 3

Reviews, January 1980-October 1981

Box 20, folder 4

Reviews, November 1981-1983

Box 20, folder 5

Reviews, 1983

Box 21, folder 1

Reviews, 1986-1987

Box 21, folder 2

Reviews, 1992-1998

Box 21, folder 3

Reviews, 1998-2005

Box 21, folder 4

United States National Committee on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (Keller), and Stanford Committee on Research, 1981-1982, 1983-1984

Box 21, folder 5

Wave Motion

Box 21, folder 6

Monthly Problems

Box 21, folder 7

Honorary Degrees, 1980-2002

Box 21, folder 8

Awards Programs, 1988

Box 22, folder 1

Map of Greenwich Village

Box 22, folder 2

Award-New York University Service Citation, 1972

Box 22, folder 3

Award-New York University Founders Society, 1999

Box 22, folder 4

Honorary Degree-Universidad Carlos III De Madrid, 1996

Box 22, folder 5

Honorary Degree-The University of Notre Dame

 

Addenda, 2018-100 Accession ARCH-2018-100

Box 1, folder 1

Application of the Pseudopotential to Trapping Problems, Torney Goldstein - Rough Draft

Box 1, folder 2

Random Waves Numbered From Tatorshi Review Article

Box 1, folder 3

Keller Published Articles 1966-1972

Box 1, folder 4

Notes on Fluid Stability Theory, Theory of O.D.E. - William Grossmann

Box 1, folder 5

Rough Surfaces

Box 1, folder 6

Notes on Coherent Scattering Problem - Gary Brown

Box 1, folder 7

Notes on Coherent Scattering from a Perfectly Conducting Gaussian Distributed Rough Surface - Gary Brown

Box 1, folder 8

Effective Conductivity,dielectric Constant and Premeability of a Dilute Suspension - Keller

Box 1, folder 9

Notes on Geometric Optics and Complex Rays

Box 1, folder 10

Heroine Use

Box 1, folder 11

Large Scale Dynamics - Hebert Spohn

Box 1, folder 12

Letter to Jow Keller

Box 1, folder 13

Athletics

Box 1, folder 14

Running Data

Box 1, folder 15

Lu's Calcs. Of S

Box 1, folder 16

Perturbation Theory and Nonlinear Oscilations

Box 1, folder 17

Short Notes

Box 1, folder 18

National Academy of Sciences

Box 1, folder 19

Asympototic Behavior of the Laplace Transform of a Probability Density

Box 1, folder 20

Random Waves - Multiple Scale Method

Box 1, folder 21

Notes

Box 1, folder 22

Probs.

Box 1, folder 23

Waves in Nonlinear Periodic Media 1999 Apr 5

Box 1, folder 24

Notes and MSS

Box 1, folder 25

Sedimentation

Box 1, folder 26

Boltzmann Equation

Box 1, folder 27

Ship Waves Etc.

Box 2, folder 1

Diffraction in Wave Guides

Box 2, folder 2

Homogenization (JBK)

Box 2, folder 3

Theoretical Acoustics Notes

Box 2, folder 4

Diffraction Monograph

Box 2, folder 5

Phase Fronts

Box 2, folder 6

Phase Front Propagation

Box 2, folder 7

Phase Front Prop.

Box 2, folder 8

Phase Front Prop.

Box 2, folder 9

Diffraction by a Thick Screen

Box 2, folder 10

Perturbation Theory of Nonlinear Problems

Box 2, folder 11

Athlectics

Box 2, folder 12

Athletics

Box 2, folder 13

Three Body Collisions

Box 2, folder 14

Vertex Sheets and Vortices in Two - Dimensional Potential Flows Around a Body

Box 2, folder 15

Partition Function Via Spherical Model

Box 2, folder 16

Ablation

Box 2, folder 17

What Mathematics Do Engineers Use?

Box 2, folder 18

Bozeman

Box 2, folder 19

Pony Tail and Flexible Mod

Box 2, folder 20

Temporal Evolution of Shear Band Thickness

Box 2, folder 21

Helmholt Resonator Modes and Scattering (Sexton/Keller)

Box 2, folder 22

Unfair Dice

Box 2, folder 23

Sports

Box 3, folder 1

Mathematics of Games and Sports

Box 3, folder 2

Mathematics of Games and Sports

Box 3, folder 3

Timoshenko Lecture

Box 3, folder 4

Wave Propagation

Box 3, folder 5

GFD Lectures OS

Box 3, folder 6

Nonreflecting Boundary Conditions

Box 3, folder 7

Semiclassical Mechanics

Box 3, folder 8

Surface Waves and Images

Box 3, folder 9

Lecture

Box 3, folder 10

Weaker Nonlinear High Frequency Waves

Box 3, folder 11

Time Dependant Oueues

Box 3, folder 12

Effective Viscosity, Effective Elasticity, Forced Nonlinear Vibrartions, Recent Developments in Applied Mech.

Box 3, folder 13

Free Boundary Flows

Box 3, folder 14

Some Progress and Some Problems in Mechanics

Box 3, folder 15

Muscle Mechanics

Box 3, folder 16

Liesegang Lecture, Lichen Tenoul Lecture, Von Karman Prize Lecture, and Rough Surfaces

Box 3, folder 17

Transport Equations for Elastic and Other Waves in Random Media

Box 3, folder 18

Woods

Box 3, folder 19

Mathematical Aspects of Visual Perception: Color Vision

Box 3, folder 20

Visual Perception: (1) Color; (2) Binocular

Box 3, folder 21

Diffusion at Finite Speed

Box 3, folder 22

Depolarization and Blurring

Box 3, folder 23

Joseph Keller - Sound Source Location

Box 3, folder 24

ONR - K8

Box 3, folder 25

Option Pricing

Box 3, folder 26

A Survey of Wave Propagation

Box 3, folder 27

Ray Solution of a Backward - Forward Parabolic Problem for Data Handling Systems

Box 3

Surveys Article on Asymptotics

Box 3

"Running for Best Time" w/Joseph Keller on SCIENCE EDITOR

Box 4, folder 1

Wave Propalation: Fluid in Viscoelastic Tube

Box 4, folder 2

Robert M. Lewis Notes

Box 4, folder 3

Robert M. Lewis

Box 4, folder 4

Rubinow

Box 4, folder 5

Misc. Papers

Box 4, folder 6

Research Reports

Box 4, folder 7

Scattering From a Cross

Box 4, folder 8

SIT - MSS - PRL

Box 4, folder 9

Boundary Conditions for the diffusion Equation in Transport Theory

Box 4, folder 10

J.B. Keller

Box 4, folder 11

Alternative Analysis of Periodic Notation

Box 4, folder 12

Dou Bai

Box 4, folder 13

Mu Ye

Box 4, folder 14

On the Probability of Brownian Motion Hitting Slits and Other Obstacles

Box 4, folder 15

Motion of Many Gravitating Bodies Along a Closed Curve

Box 4, folder 16

Intransity of Matching and the Definition of Equivalent Stimuli

Box 4, folder 17

A Nonlinear Eigenvalue Problem

Box 4, folder 18

Optimum Design of Tests

Box 4, folder 19

Some Unsolved Problems in Wave Propagation

Box 4, folder 20

Determination of the Decaying Solution of a Linear Second Order Ordinary Differential Equation

Box 4, folder 21

Jay Bourland

Box 5, folder 1

Athletics: Reprints and Notes

Box 5, folder 2

The Institute for Problems in Mechanics: the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences

Box 5, folder 3

Wave Chaos in Elastodynamic Cavity Scattering

Box 5, folder 4

Stochastic Equations and the Theory of Turbulence

Box 5, folder 5

Keller - Lewis Book: Handwritten Notes

Box 5, folder 6

Asymptotic Methods of Partial Differential Equations: The Reduced Wave Equation and Maxell's Equations

Box 5, folder 7

Misc. Handwritten Notes for JBK

Box 5, folder 8

Misc.

Box 5, folder 9

Life Span

Box 5, folder 10

Tension and Thick Filament Movement in Muscle Fibers

Box 5, folder 11

Basilar membrane Wave Motion

Box 5, folder 12

Nonlinear Wave Propagation

Box 5, folder 13

Asymptotic Methods for PDE's

Box 5, folder 14

Defense Documentation Center: Defense Supply Agency

Box 5, folder 15

Section G

Box 5, folder 16

Vision (JBK)

Box 5, folder 17

Rough Surfaces

Box 5, folder 18

Scattering by Rough Surfaces

Box 5, folder 19

Salt Fingers

Box 5, folder 20

Acoustic Waves

Box 5, folder 21

Taylor Diffusion

Box 5, folder 22

Diffusion in a Shear Flow (JBK)

Box 6, folder 1

The Mathematical Sciences Education Board

Box 6, folder 2

Misc. Notes

Box 6, folder 3

Keller - Pending

Box 6, folder 4

Water Wave Production

Box 6, folder 5

Water Wave Run - Up On a Beach Service B. Corp. w/Herbert Keller

Box 6, folder 6

Jets

Box 6, folder 7

Records

Box 6, folder 8

Weak Shock Solutions of the Boltzmann Equation

Box 6, folder 9

Concernign two Conjectures on the Radios of Consecutive Eigenvalues

Box 6, folder 10

Progress Report on Spherical Lenses and Fish Eyes

Box 6, folder 11

Applied Mathematics: Joseph B. Keller

Box 6, folder 12

Average and Two - Point Correlation of Solutions of Linear Equations with random Coefficients

Box 6, folder 13

Geometrical and Asymptotic Methods in Wave Propagation

Box 6, folder 14

Minimum Weight and Minimum Stress Deisgn in Beams

Box 6, folder 15

On Frock's Method of Finding the Field Near a Shdow Boundary (Preliminary Report)

Box 6, folder 16

Diffraction by a Curved Cylindrical Reflector

Box 6, folder 17

Collapse of a Wedge of Water

Box 6, folder 18

The Presure at the Closed end of a Tue Due to Finite Amplitude Piston Vibrations

Box 6, folder 19

Propagation of a Recrystallization Front by Joseph B. Keller

Box 6, folder 20

High Intensity Sound and Periodic Shock Waves

Box 6, folder 21

Cavitation and Shock Reflection by Joseph B. Keller

Box 6, folder 22

Heating by Shaking by Joseph B. Keller

Box 6, folder 23

The Motion of Two Charged Particles in a Resting Medium

Box 6, folder 24

Forced Nonlinear Vibrations and Perturbed Bifurcation Theory

Box 6, folder 25

The Centripetal Pump and Viscous Flow Between Rotating Plates

Box 6, folder 26

Quantization of Magnetic Flux

Box 6, folder 27

Approximate Equations for Large Scale Atmospheric Motions

Box 6, folder 28

Manuscripts

Box 6, folder 29

Rough Surface Reflection

Box 6, folder 30

Asymptotic Theory of Wave Propagation and Diffraction

Box 6, folder 31

Keller - Lewis Book Chapter VI

Box 6, folder 32

Uniform Theory of Diffraction by a Plane Screen

Box 6, folder 33

Volume Sources

Box 6, folder 34

Asymptotic Theory of Wave Propagation and Diffraction

Box 6, folder 35

Asymptotic Theory of Wave Propagation and Diffraction

Box 6, folder 36

Part Three: Caustics and Diffraction by Smooth Surfaces

 

Addenda, 2018-132 Accession ARCH-2018-132

Box 1, folder 1

Biographical, Press Releases

Box 1, folder 2

Lectures, Lecture Transp. List

Box 1, folder 3

PhD Students

Box 1, folder 4

Publications

Box 1, folder 5

Abstracts

Box 1, folder 6

Correspondence

Box 1, folder 7

Awards

Box 1, folder 8

Stanford Appointment

Box 1, folder 9

Clippings

Box 1, folder 10

"Mathematics in the Spirit of Joe Keller"

Box 2, folder 1

Photographs

Box 2, folder 2

Photographs

Box 2, folder 3

Slides

Box 2, folder 4

Photograph - Colloquium in honor of JBK's 80th