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MS 088 – NEUMANN, Hanna (1914-1971)
Mathematician

Mathematician, specialising in group theory and in the teaching of mathematics. Chair of Pure Mathematics, Australian National University from 1964; elected FAA 1969; elected Fellow of the Australian College of Education 1970.

The memoir by M. F. Newman and G. E. Wall is available at: science.org.au/fellows/memoirs/neumann.html


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    Correspondence 1964-1971: Australian Mathematical Society and related

  1. Australian Mathematical Society: circulars, newsletters, minutes, reports, correspondence 1964-1969

  2. Australian Mathematical Society: circulars, newsletters, minutes, reports, correspondence for organising 1967 Annual General Meeting 1966-1967

  3. Australian Mathematical Society: AGM 1968

  4. Australian Mathematical Society: AGM 1969 including abstracts of papers presented

  5. Australian Mathematical Society: AGM 1972: correspondence 1971

  6. American Mathematical Society: correspondence re: subscriptions 1968-1971

  7. American Mathematical Society: correspondence re: subscriptions 1964-1967

  8. Australian Mathematical Society Journal: correspondence re: reviewing contributions 1964-1970

  9. Report on the Sixth Summer Research Institute of the Australian National University 10th January to 18th February 1966

  10. Australian Association of Mathematics Teachers Inaugural Conference 1966: circulars, correspondence, notices of meetings, reports, 1966-1967

  11. Australian Association of Mathematics Teachers Executive Meeting 18th February 1967: correspondence, agenda, minutes 1967

  12. Australian Association of Mathematics Teachers Council Meeting 28th May 1967: agenda, minutes, correspondence and related papers

  13. Australian Association of Mathematics Teachers correspondence 1968, 1971

  14. ANU Mathematical Society correspondence 1971

  15. ANU Science Society correspondence 1965

  16. Australian-American Educational Foundation, Programme correspondence 1965-1969

  17. Summer Research Institute of the Australian Mathematical Society (5th-8th) programmes, notes, correspondence 1964-1967

  18. Ninth Summer Research Institute of the Australian Mathematical Society, correspondence, circulars 1968-1969

  19. Ninth Summer Research Institute of the Australian Mathematical Society, correspondence with Prof. S MacLane 1967-1968

  20. 1972 Summer Research Institute of the Australian Mathematical Society correspondence 1971


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    Correspondence 1964-1971: A-B

  1. Academic Press 1965

  2. Australian Academy of Science 1970-1971

  3. ANZAAS conference memorandum 1968

  4. Australian College of Education 1969-1970

  5. Australian National Advisory Committee for UNESCO, enquiry form for seminar in the Social Science 1968

  6. R Allenby 1970

  7. C V W Armstrong 1970

  8. S Bachmuth 1965-1971

  9. R Baer 1971

  10. J Baker 1969

  11. D W Barnes 1966

  12. E S Barnes 1964-1967

  13. B Baumslag 1964

  14. G Baumslag 1965-1967

  15. N Blackburn 1965

  16. A L Blakers 1971

  17. J M Blatt 1965-1968

  18. R Blum 1970

  19. Books – personal orders 1965-1971

  20. H Braun 1968

  21. W Brisley 1965-1968

  22. J Britton 1966

  23. M Brookes 1971

  24. N R Broomberg 1968-1969

  25. Alistair Brown 1967-1969

  26. Archie Brown 1965

  27. H Buchdahl 1965

  28. V T Buchwald 1966-1968

  29. R G Burns 1966-1969

  30. Burton-Jones 1970-1971

  31. R H Bruck 1965


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    Correspondence 1964-1971: C-F

  1. A Calvert 1971

  2. Canberra Association of University Women 1966-1968

  3. Canberra College of Advanced Education 1969-1970

  4. Canberra Mathematics Association 1969-1971

  5. Canberra Mathematics Association syllabus committee 1964-1965

  6. Canberra Mathematics Association syllabus committee, syllabus and papers 1965

  7. Canadian Journal of Mathematics, Canadian Mathematical Bulletin 1964-1965

  8. Chau Tin Choi 1968-1971

  9. J Coates 1965-1969

  10. D E Cohen 1966

  11. International Congress of Mathematicians 1966

  12. H M S Coxeter 1968-1970

  13. J Craggs 1966

  14. N Dancer 1971

  15. H Davenport 1964

  16. C Davis 1967-1968

  17. I M S Dey 1970-1971

  18. J D Dixon 1966

  19. J B Douglas 1967-1968

  20. M J Dunwoody 1965-1967

  21. Education Department, NSW 1965-1966

  22. H M Edwards 1970-1971

  23. S Efmamjjasond 1971

  24. D Elliott 1966

  25. A Erdélyi 1969

  26. I H Farouqi 1969-1970


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    Correspondence 1964-1971: G-I

  1. J Gani 1964-1965

  2. H G Garnir 1969

  3. W Gaschütz 1969

  4. P and D Gaudry 1964-1968

  5. J Gilder 1964-1967

  6. R D Giri 1970

  7. O N Golovin 1966-1970

  8. H B Griffiths 1964

  9. R N Gould 1965-1971 (including copies of papers)

  10. Group Theory conference 1965: organisational discussion and correspondence 1964-1965

  11. K Gruenberg 1964-1967

  12. N Gupta 1965-1968 (including offprints)

  13. P Hall 1965-1968

  14. J Hannoush 1970

  15. H Heilbronn 1964

  16. D Held 1965-1966

  17. E Hewitt 1968-1969

  18. High Schools: correspondence with H J Watson 1965, copies of Examination Committee Report for mathematics 1971

  19. P J Hilton 1966-1968

  20. K A Hirsch 1967-1968

  21. Hochland (Haigh and Hochland Booksellers) 1965-1967

  22. H G Hopkins 1969-1970

  23. A F Horadam 1964-1969

  24. M Horadam1966

  25. C H Houghton 1964-1969

  26. A Howe 1968

  27. I Hughes 1964

  28. B Huppert 1969-1970

  29. K Hutchison 1967-1971

  30. Immigration Department pamphlets and correspondence 1965

  31. G Ivanov, handwritten report


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    Correspondence1964-1971: J-R

  1. B Johnson 1967-1968

  2. L A Kaloujnine 1967-1968

  3. A D Keedwell 1964

  4. G M Kelly 1969-1971

  5. R Kochendörffer 1965-1967

  6. L G Kovács 1965-1966

  7. A G Kurosh 1965-1968

  8. G J Kynch 1968

  9. J Landman 1965-1969

  10. H C Levey 1966

  11. F Levin 1968-1970

  12. Lions Club 1964

  13. E R Love 1966-1967

  14. L Low 1965

  15. S MacLane 1969

  16. J McMullen 1969

  17. J M Mack 1965

  18. W Magnus 1966-1967

  19. A Majeed 1969-1971

  20. G Maxwell 1968-1969

  21. J B Miller 1964-1970

  22. Miscellaneous 1964-1967

  23. D S Mitrinovic 1971

  24. G Morris 1964-1969

  25. R Morris 1967

  26. H Mulhall 1966

  27. J Mycielski 1964-1968

  28. I D Macdonald 1964-1968

  29. B Szökefalvi-Nagy 1964

  30. J Naas 1967

  31. J Neubüser 1965-1967

  32. B B Newman 1967

  33. Peter Neumann 1966-1971

  34. M H A Newman 1966

  35. NSW Summer School 1965

  36. S N Nwankpa 1964-1968

  37. Oberwolfach 1966

  38. Pacific Journal of Mathematics 1966

  39. K Palmer 1970

  40. J M Parrington 1967

  41. P Pentony 1971

  42. Pergamon Press 1967-1968

  43. B Pietsch 1968

  44. A F Pillow 1966-1967

  45. R B Potts 1966-1971

  46. M Prater 1965-1966

  47. G B Preston 1964-1967

  48. J F Price 1970-1971

  49. M R Rees 1966-1968

  50. Reprints (requests etc) 1965-1967

  51. Reviews (letters concerning) 1964-1965

  52. T G Room 1965

  53. I L Rose 1965


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    Correspondence 1964-1971: S

  1. St Anne's College 1970

  2. Schaum Publishing Company 1966-1968

  3. School Mathematics Research Foundation 1968

  4. H Schwerdtfeger 1964

  5. B Scott 1964

  6. B Shaddock 1971

  7. A Shafaat 1969

  8. J A H Shepperd 1964-1967

  9. H Shutrick 1967

  10. A L Šmel'kin 1966-1969

  11. R C T Smith 1965-1966

  12. R J Smith 1965

  13. F Smithies 1968

  14. C J Smyth 1968-1969

  15. Soroptimist Club 1964

  16. Southampton University Bookshop (including School Mathematics Project) 1965-1967

  17. Springer (copies of reviews) 1967-1971

  18. Springer-Verlag 1964-1971

  19. B Srinivasan 1965-1966

  20. J R Stallings 1967

  21. U Stammbach 1967-1968

  22. P F Stebe 1969

  23. A G R Stewart 1965-1966

  24. M H Stone 1965-1969

  25. Study leave arrangements 1968-1970

  26. Study leave arrangements, Vanderbilt University and others 1967-1970

  27. J Swallow 1964

  28. G Szekeres 1965-1970


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    Correspondence 1964-1971: T-Z

  1. B K Tamuli 1964

  2. T Taylor 1964-1965

  3. S Tobin 1965-1967

  4. J R Trotter 1966

  5. E H Twizell 1967

  6. University Credit Union, bulletins etc 1966-1967

  7. G L Macauley, University of NSW 1967

  8. University House 1967-1970

  9. University Staff Centre 1967

  10. R S Varma

  11. G E Wall 1964-1966

  12. J Wamsley (including copies of papers) 1968

  13. P Wiechel 1968-1969

  14. F E Whitehart, bookseller 1966-1967

  15. John Wiley and Sons 1966

  16. J Wiegold 1970-1971

  17. J S Wilson 1970

  18. Wodonga Technical School 1971

  19. Women of the Year Luncheon 1964

  20. World University Service 1964

  21. M Yasugi 1965

  22. G Zappa 1970-1971

  23. E C Zeeman 1967-1969

  24. Zentralblatt für Mathematik 1966-1968

  25. Films: Mathematical (catalogues and enquiries) 1964-1971

  26. Books, calendars, papers, films 1964-1971

  27. Publishers' information 1964-1969


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    Lecture notes

  1. Manuscript lecture notes: Vanderbilt Fall semester 1969-1970; Cambridge: 'The laws of finite simple groups' 1970

  2. Lie Algebra

  3. Typescript 'Group Representations: A course of 18 lectures given by Hanna Neumann, March-May 1971; notes written by M. Schooneveldt' and other manuscript notes on group representations

  4. 'Representation Theory of some classical groups' 1960

  5. Pro-groups: manuscript lecture notes and other notes 1967


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    Manuscripts

  1. Three bundles of index cards (alphabetical by author)

  2. Lecture notes: Theory of Numbers 1947-1948

  3. Lecture notes: Theory of Sets, Elements of Topology 1951

  4. Lecture notes: Elliptic Functions 1953

  5. Lists of manuscripts and lecture notes

  6. 'Laws in groups: recent developments: LMS 21st May 1970'; 'Hopf's problem: An address to the British Mathematical Colloquium, Cambridge, April 1954'

  7. Material on cohomology of groups: manuscript notes 'Character groups'; copies of papers 'Cohomology of groups and transfer' B Eckmann, Annals of Mathematics 1953 and 'New proof for a theorem of Eilenberg and Maclane' R Lyndon, Annals of Mathematics 1949; typescript notes


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    Manuscripts (cont)

  1. Folder of manuscript lecture and seminar notes, with list of contents 1939-1971

    Biographical and miscellaneous

  2. Correspondence with H Lenz 1953-1954 including typescript of typescript by H Neumann 'on some finite non-desarguesian planes' (published 1955), with covering letter to the Australian Academy of Science by B H Neumann 1991

  3. Bicentenary coin (5 deutschmarks) with portrait of Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855) presented by B H Neumann 10/6/1977

  4. Reprints of:  'Hanna Neumann: A biographical notice' M F Newman, The Australian Mathematics Teacher vol. 29 no. 1 1973; 'Hanna Neumann' M F Newman and G E Wall, Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society vol. 17 1974

  5. Job applications including CVs 1946-1949


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    Notebooks

  1. Black notebook: travel diary 1931

  2. Student [University of Berlin] mathematics notebooks, one card-bound, 14 black, 1932-1938


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    Notebooks (cont)

  1. Two black notebooks labelled 'A' and 'B'

  2. Graph book with some plottings

  3. Four black notebooks 1946-1948 and 1950-1951

  4. Notebook I 1951-1954

  5. Notebook II 1954-1957

  6. Notebook: 'J. A. Green, Algebraic Groups, Lent Term 59/60 ... N. Blackburn ZA-groups, Summer Term 1960'

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