Colloquium Talk
Professor Karen Parshall, University of Virginia
Thursday November 2nd, 2023 at 3PM
Rocky 300

Title: Growing Research-Level Mathematics in 1930s America: An Historical Paradox

Abstract: World War I had marked a break in business as usual within the American mathematical research community. In its aftermath, there was a stirring sense of entering into “a new era in the development of our science.”  And then the stock market crashed. Would it be possible in such newly straitened times to sustain into the 1930s the momentum that American mathematicians had managed to build in the 1920s? This talk will explore the contours of an answer to that question.