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RICE UNIVERSITY FONDREN LIBRARY Founded under the charter of the univer- sity dated May 18, 1891, the library was 3oard of Directors, 1988-1989 established in 1913. Its present facility was dedicated November 4, 1949, and rededi- cated in 1969 after a substantial addition, Officers both made possible by gifts of Ella F. Fondren, her children, and the Fondren Foundation and Trust as a tribute to Mr. Edgar O. Lovett II, President Walter William Fondren. The library re- Mrs. Frank B. Davis, Vice-President, Membership corded its half-millionth volume in 1965; Mr. David S. Elder, Vice-President, Programs its one millionth volume was celebrated Mrs. John L Margrave, Vice-President, Special Event April 22, 1979. Mr. J. Richard Luna, Treasurer Ms. Tommie Lu Mauldsby, Secretary Mr. David D. Itz, Immediate Past President Dr. Samuel M. Carrington, Jr., University Librarian (ex- offlcio) THE FRIENDS OF FONDREN LIBRARY Dr. Neal F. Line, Provost and Vice-President (ex- officio) Chairman of the University Committee on the Library The Fnends of Fondren Library was found- (ex-officio) ed in 1950 as an association of library sup- porters interested in increasing and making Mrs. Elizabeth D. Charles, Executive Director (ex- better known the resources of the Fondren officio) Library at Rice University. The Friends, through members' contributions and spon- sorship of a memonal and honor gift pro- Members tit Large gram, secure gifts and bequests and provide funds tor the purchase of rare books, manuscripts, and other materials which Mrs. D. Allshouse could not otherwise be acquired by the J. Mr. John B. Baird III library. Mr. Walter S. Baker, Jr. Mr. Ronald W. Blake Mrs. Jack S. Blanton, Jr. Dr. Harold M. Hyman THE FLYLEAF Mrs. George A. Laigle Mr. Richard W. Lilliott III Founded October 1950 and published Mrs. Don Manage quarterly by The Friends of Fondren Q Mr. Library, Rice University, P.O. Box 18 2, John H. Matthews Houston, Texas 77251, as a record of Mr. Charles D. Maynarcl Fondren Library's and Friends' activities, Dr. Harold E. Rorschach and of the generosity of the library's Mrs. Nancy Rupp supporters. Mrs. Gus A. Schill, Jr. John E. Wolf, M.D. Managing Editor, Betty Charles; Editor, Cory Masiak; Editorial Committee, Sam- Cover: The Dedication of the Martha W. and H. Malcolm uel Carrington, Margaret Clegg, Feme Lwett Lounge on May 1 , 1 988. Left to right: Dr. Samuel M. Hyman, Nancy Rupp. Carrington, Jr., Dr. George E. Rupp, Mr. Edgar O. Lovett 11, Mr. Lovett, Mrs. Lovett, Mrs. Edgar O. Lovett U, Mr. David D. It;. Photograph by Elizabeth Charles. Photographs by Elizabeth Charles and Gma Walters A LETTER TO THE FRIENDS CONTENTS 1 A Letter to the Friends Dear Friends, It is a pleasure to inform you that the Center tor Salomon Bochner Papers Scholarship and Information, located in Fondren Library, Michael F. Frv will be open in the fall of 1988. A joint project of the li- brary, the Department of English, and the Institute for Computer Services and Applications, and funded in part Behind the Scenes at Fondren Library by the Friends of Fondren Library, the CSI is a computer- Signer F. Schou equipped classroom and laboratory facility that is intended to link students' intellectual development with the increasingly vast and sophisticated array of information Friends of Academic Libraries in Texas resources presently available. Survey Results For some years now, there has been a growing concern on college campuses that computer literacy is being pur- 10 sued to the dernment of the traditional skills of reading The Dedication of the Martha W. and writing. Educators have felt that computers, with the and H. Malcolm Lovett Lounge proper application, could contribute to the development of those skills feared to be in decline. It was with this pur- pose in mind that the Center for Scholarship and Informa- Donors to the Friends of Fondren's tion was conceived and established. Library Renovation Fund It is hoped that such a facility will encourage students to assume more of the responsibility for their own educa- 12 tion by making them active, collaborative participants in The Friends of Fondren Library the learning process. As important as the acquisition of "facts" will be the building of an intellectual foundation 13 that consists, in part, of the ability to solve problems and to Gifts to the Fondren Library apply concepts. We expect the CSI to provide this kind of independent, complementary learning experience. Occupying the former Office of Continuing Studies, Preview of the Twenty- Fifth Annual the CSI will include a classroom for regular course use and Student Art Show tutorials, as well as a public-use area for independent research and scholarship. It will be supplied with com- puters, printers, and assorted audiovisual equipment. We are proud to note that some of the Center's hardware and software were purchased with funds generously provided by the Friends of Fondren Library. We invite the Friends to stop by the CSI for a visit. We think you'll be pleased with how your resources have been Sincerely yours, Richard W. Lilliott III Member, Board of Directors Past Tteasurer SALOMON BOCHNER PAPERS Alamos Project and tor the Air Research and Develop- ment Command. In 1968 Bochner retired from Princeton Michael F. Fry L'niversity and accepted Rice University's offer ot the Manuscript Librarian Edgar Odell Lovett Chair in Mathematics. He subse- Woodson Research Center quently became the chairman ot the Department of Mathematics. Dunng his early years, Bochner was preoccupied with The personal papers of Salomon Bochner, a teacher, pure mathematical theory and proved to be a provocative histonan, and mathematician or international fame, have and prolific writer. After receiving much notoriety at an recently been organized, described in a formal guide, and early age in Europe, he embarked at Princeton on his made available to scholars. The papers were donated to lifelong study ot harmonic analysis, starting with the now Rice University by his daughter, Deborah Bochner Ken- classical treatise Lectures on the Fourier Integral. This work nel, and deposited in Fondren Library's Woodson planted the seeds of what was latet called the theory of dis- Research Center in 1982. Five record storage boxes came tributions and set forth his most famous theorem, actually from his home in Houston, where Bochner lived while known as the Bochnet Theotem. serving as Edgar Odell Lovett Professor of Mathematics at Rice University, and an additional thirty-tour boxes arrived later from the mathematics department of Prince- ton University, where he taught for thirty-five years. In all, the collection consists of 5,320 items that occupy fifty-two cubic feet and span the period from 1914 to 1982. Bochner was bom in 1899 in the small town of Podgorzu, Austria-Hungary, now in Poland, and died in Houston in 1982. His early education included grammar school and attendance at the Academia w Krakowie. In 1915 he moved to Berlin, where he attended the Konigstadtisch Oberrealschule until he was conscripted into the Austro-Hunganan army in May 1917. While in the army Bochner received medical training at a military school near Vienna and eventually reached the tank of corporal in the medical corps. He was stationed at a military hospital until November 1918. Soon thereaftet he matriculated at the University of Berlin, where he studied mathematics and was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1921. Directly after receiving his doctorate, Bochner was Bocfincr m his early twenties (from a German document) employed as a volunteet in the Cuten and Syman Banking House in Betlm, but left at the end of the year. In 1925 he His accomplishments in harmonic analysis did not was awarded an International Education Boatd Fellow- prevent him from working in other areas ot mathematics ship, which took him to Copenhagen to study with Harald with equal success. In the field ot several complex Bohr and to Oxford and Cambridge to work with G.H. vanables, Bochner's achievements were significant and Hardy and J.E. Littlewood. In 1927 he accepted a position broad, especially in their interaction with other areas of as lecturer in the mathematics department at the Univer- mathematics. The crowning honor in this field came in sity of Munich. 1 967 with the fifth pnnting of Several Complex Vanabl As a Jew, Bochner evidently decided that the growing originally published in 1 947. In probability theory, his Har tide of Nazism in Germany left him with no other choice momc Analysis and the Theory of Probability became a Stan than to seek a new life elsewhere. After a six-month stay in dard work. During the period from 1950 to 1965 Cambridge, England, he joined the Princeton University Bochner published at least eighty mathematical articles faculty in 1933, and served as an assistant, associate, and most being elaborations on his earlier ideas. then full professor of mathematics until 1968. Dunng that Afterwards, however, he turned almost exclusively to period Bochner held other professional positions: he was a the history and philosophy of science. In his later years, temporary member of the Institute of Advanced Study of Bochner wrote books and articles on the role of the con- Pnnceton University; he spent one year as a visiting pro- cepts of space, infinity, functions, continuity in major fessor at Harvard University and another at the University junctures, and real numbers, and on the upheavals in the of California, Berkeley; he was a consultant at the Los rise of Western mathematics, such as the decline of Greek Page 2 The Flyleaf 1 mathematics in its own phase, the sudden emergence of analysis in the late Renaissance, and a subtle but very tan- gible change of style in mathematics during the transition from the eighteenth to the nineteenth century.

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