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Stephen Smale papers, 1950-1998.
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Stephen Smale papers, 1950-1998Creator/Contributor:
Smale, Stephen, 1930-, creatorAbstract:
The collection includes materials relating to Smale's career in mathematics as well as to his involvement in the anti-war
and free speech movements. Among those materials documenting Smale's academic career are correspondence relating to his own
work as well as the work of the UC Berkeley math department, reprints and notes, lecture and seminar notes and materials,
clippings, and a large banner for the Marker Lectures (Theory of Computation) at the University of Seoul. Among the materials
documenting Smale's involvement in the anti-war and other protest movements include files on the Vietnam Day Committee at
UC Berkeley; files, a map, and a scrapbook on the troop train protests; files on Smale's trip to Moscow and the reaction it
produced; files on the Smale Case, including correspondence with the National Science Foundation as well as press coverage
of the affair; manuscript drafts of Smale's memoir Days of Protest; and a few photographs of Smale, one of which shows Smale
speaking in front of a banner for Mathematicians Against War and Racism.
Date:
1950 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caFreedom of speech -- California -- Berkeley
Protest movements -- California -- Berkeley
Peace movements -- California -- Berkeley
Demonstrations -- California -- Berkeley
Fields Prizes
Mathematicians -- California -- Berkeley
Mathematics -- Study and teaching
Mathematics -- United States
Mathematics -- Congresses
Liberté d'expression -- Californie -- Berkeley
Contestation -- Californie -- Berkeley
Mouvements pacifistes -- Californie -- Berkeley
Manifestations -- Californie -- Berkeley
Médaille Fields
Mathématiciens -- Californie -- Berkeley
Mathématiques -- Étude et enseignement
Mathématiques -- États-Unis
Mathématiques -- Congrès
Demonstrations
Fields Prizes
Freedom of speech
Mathematicians
Mathematics
Mathematics -- Study and teaching
Peace movements
Protest movements
California -- Berkeley
United States
Vietnam Day Committee (Berkeley, Calif.)
National Science Foundation (U.S.)
University of California, Berkeley. -- Department of Mathematics.
National Science Foundation (U.S.)
University of California, Berkeley. -- Department of Mathematics
Vietnam Day Committee (Berkeley, Calif.)
Smale, Stephen -- 1930- -- Archives
Harrison, Jenny
Smale, Stephen -- 1930-
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Included in: History of science and technology collection.
COLLECTION STORED, IN PART, OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.
Gift; Of Stephen Smale; 1998.
Related item: From topology to computation [videorecording] : proceedings of the Smalefest, 1990 Aug. 5-9 (Motion Picture
893 D:1-18).
Stephen Smale, born in 1930 in Flint, Michigan, is an American mathematician who worked for over thirty years in the Department
of Mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley (1960-1995). Early work produced proofs of a sphere eversion (1958)
and the Poincaré conjecture for all dimensions greater than or equal to 5. His work in differential topology was followed
by an interest in dynamical systems, which produced the famous Smale horseshoe. Smale was awarded the Fields Medal in 1966
and the Wolf Prize in mathematics in 2007. In addition to his work in mathematics, Smale was an activist in the anti-war movement
and the free speech movement. He co-founded the Vietnam Day Committee in Berkeley, whose most prominent act was a 1965 Oakland
demonstration intended to stop troop trains. In 1966, Smale travelled to the International Congress of Mathematicians in Moscow,
where he was scheduled to deliver a paper and receive the Fields Medal. While in Moscow, Smale created controversy by issuing
a statement from the steps of Moscow University that criticized both the war in Vietnam and what he perceived to be a new
McCarthyism in the United States. This event was the catalyst for a congressional inquiry into the National Science Foundation's
funding of Smale which became known as the Smale Case.
Preferred citation: Stephen Smale papers, BANC MSS 99/373 c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
In English.
Type:
faculty papers.Archives.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Physical Description:
print
4 cartons, 1 volume, 1 roll, 1 oversize folder (6.2 linear feet)
Language:
English
Origin:
No place, unknown, or undeterminedCopyright Note:
COLLECTION STORED, IN PART, OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.