]> ms.107 Murnaghan, (Francis Dominic) 1893-1976 Papers 1925-1971 Ms. 107 Special Collections, The Milton S. Eisenhower Library, The Johns Hopkins University
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Machine-readable finding aid encoded by Diwakar Bhandari Finding aid written in English Murnaghan, (Francis Dominic) 1893-1976 Papers 1925-1971 Ms. 107 Special CollectionsThe Milton S. Eisenhower Library The Johns Hopkins University Contact Information Special Collections The Milton S. Eisenhower Library The Johns Hopkins University 3400 North Charles Street Baltimore, MD 21218 (410) 516-8323 Diwakar Bhandari

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 Descriptive Summary Ms. 107 Murnaghan, (Francis Dominic) 1893-1976 Papers 1925-1971 Murnaghan, Francis Dominic, 1893-1976 Johns Hopkins University. Special Collections 3 linear ft. (6 boxes) English, Portuguese The collection of mathematician, Francis D. Murnaghan consists of research notes, lecture notes, correspondence, reprints, and drafts. Several lectures are in Portuguese and were presented by Murnaghan at the Instituto TecnolŸogico de AreonŸautica, S ao JosŸe Dos Campos, Brazil. Subjects include vector analysis, theory of elasticity, and tensor analysis. Administrative Information Provenance

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Francis D. Murnaghan Papers Ms. 107 Special Collections, Milton S. Eisenhower Library, The Johns Hopkins University

Biographical Note

Francis D. Murnaghan was professor of mathematics, The Johns Hopkins University (1928-1949). He was born in Omagh, County Tyrone, Ireland in 1893. He studied at the National University of Ireland before coming to the United States in 1914. Murnaghan received his Ph.D. from Hopkins in 1916 and taught briefly at the Rice Institute. He returned to Hopkins in 1918 to teach in the mathematics department where he later served as chairman of the department. Murnaghan was appointed the first professor of mathematics at the Instituto TecnolŸogico de AreonŸautica in Brazil where he lectured in both English and Portuguese, 1949-1959. His writings include "Vector Analysis and the Theory of Relativity" (1922) and "Theoretical Mechanics" (1929). Francis D. Murnaghan died in Baltimore, MD in 1976.

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Box Contents Correspondence 1 Walter S. Dawkins, 1932-38, 1971,1972 Articles 1 list of publications by Murnaghan 1 reprints 1 The Total Electric Charge of a Finite Universe 1 Powers of Representations of the Rotation Group 1 Theory of Shock Waves 1 Topological Spaces 1 Analytic Continuation 1 Notes on Modern Physics Research Notes and Lectures Series Research Notes and Lectures Series

Box Contents research notes (unsorted) Lectures 2 Vector Analysis and Functions of a Complex Variable Rio de Janeiro, 1949 2 Large Deformations in the Theory of Elasticity lectures 1-9, n.d. 2 Tensor Analysis Centro T‚cnico de Aeron utica. Instituto Tecnol¢gico de Aeron utica, n.d. 3 Boundary Value Problems and Integral Equations Centro T‚cnico de Aeron utica. Instituto Tecnol¢gico de Aeron utica, n.d. 3 Curso de Eletricidade Escola T‚cnica do Exercito., n.d. 3 Integra‡ o de Lebesgue [28 lectures], n.d. Books Series Books Series

Box Contents 4 Algebra Elementar. chapters 1-8 4 Numeros de Clifford chapter 25 5 Mathematics for Secondary Schools 1966 typescript 6 Mathematics for Secondary Schools draft