Mathematics at the University of Florida in Gainesville: The First Sixty-Five Years

By Paul Ewing Ehrlich

Provenance of this web edition: The Introduction is signed by Paul Ewing Ehrlich and dated December 3, 1996; the surviving 476-page PDF’s metadata records that file’s creation on January 22, 2012. This reading edition was reconstructed from that PDF and Internet Archive captures of two web editions hosted on Theral Moore’s pages at www.math.ufl.edu/~theral and theral.net. It follows the web editions’ nine-chapter organization: they present Thomas Taliaferro and Andrew Sledd as Chapters 1 and 2, while the PDF places both in Chapter 1. The text is collated from all three witnesses rather than copied from a single web version, with the PDF used as the authority where surviving wording differs.

Contents

• Introduction
  • References
  • Acknowledgments

1. Thomas Taliaferro 1901–1904: A Johns Hopkins Graduate Comes to Grief in Lake City
   • References
   • Appendix A: President Taliaferro’s Annual Report
2. President Andrew Sledd: A Building Program in 1904
   • References
   • Appendix A: The Normal and Industrial School in St. Petersburg
   • Appendix B: The Board of Trustees in 1904
   • Appendix C: A Tour of the New Campus in Gainesville in 1906
   • Appendix D: Autobiography of a Southern Schoolmaster
   • Appendix E: Religious Considerations in the Early 1900s: William Henry Belk
3. The Early History: 1905–1911
   • References
   • Appendix A: Dean John R. Benton Remembered
   • Appendix B: What Became of Andrew Sledd?
4. Summer, 1906: Off to Gainesville
   • References
   • Appendix A: Charles Crow Remembers Gainesville in 1906
5. The Early History of the Department of Mathematics: 1911 through the 1930s, the Simpson Years
   • References
   • Appendix A: Enrollments
   • Appendix B: The Philosophy of the Lower Division and General College
   • Appendix C: Books authored by mathematics faculty members, 1911–1940
   • Appendix D: Thomas Simpson’s 1943–1944 Annual Report
   • Appendix E: Size of the Instructional Staff
   • Appendix F: Life in Gainesville in the 1910s and 1920s
   • Appendix G: Pre-World War II Faculty Biographical Sketches
   • Appendix H: The University of Florida during World War I
   • Appendix I: Epidemics Prior to the 1920s
   • Appendix J: Colin Gunn, Class of 1916
6. Albert A. Murphree: A Mathematics Professor at the Turn of the Century
   • References
7. Graduate Education in Mathematics in 1894
   • References
8. Dr. Franklin Wesley Kokomoor, Chair from 1951–1960
   • References
   • Appendix A: The University of Florida during World War II
   • Appendix B: Mathematics in a Dark Room
   • Appendix C: Louis Karpinski and American History of Mathematics Prior to World War II
9. The John E. Maxfield and A. D. Wallace Years: 1960–1970—The Research Climate Receives Increasing Emphasis
   • References
   • Appendix A: Not With A Hatchet
   • Appendix B: The Center for Applied Mathematics

Index