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    <unittitle>Cassius Jackson Keyser papers</unittitle>
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      <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86872360" source="naf">Keyser, Cassius Jackson, 1862-1947</persname>
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      <language langcode="eng" scriptcode="Latn">English</language>
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      <extent altrender="materialtype spaceoccupied">10 boxes</extent>
      <extent altrender="carrier">10 boxes</extent>
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    <unitdate datechar="creation" normal="1884/1945" type="inclusive">1884-1945</unitdate>
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    <head>Arrangement</head>
<p>Selected materials cataloged, remainder arranged.</p>  </arrangement>
  <accessrestrict id="aspace_b8a162738db7edafbf219fa2aade2b0b">
    <head> Restrictions on Access</head>
<p>Boxes 2 through 10 of this collection are located off-site. You will need to request this material at least three business days in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room.</p>  </accessrestrict>
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    <head> Restrictions on Access</head>
<p>This collection has no restrictions.</p>  </accessrestrict>
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    <head>Summary</head>
<p>The letters and manuscripts of Keyser, including the notes and manuscripts for his lectures, essays, and books, as well as his correspondence with colleagues and mathematicians throughout the world. There are letters from Benjamin N. Cardozo, Alfred Korzybski, Anna Hempstead Branch, James Truslow Adams, and Clarence Day, Jr.</p>  </scopecontent>
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    <head>Preferred Citation</head>
<p>Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Cassius Jackson Keyser papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.</p>  </prefercite>
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    <head>Terms Governing Use and Reproduction</head>
<p>Reproductions may be made for research purposes. The RBML maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator and his/her heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.</p>  </userestrict>
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    <head>Immediate Source of Acquisition</head>
<p>Source of acquisition--Keyser, Mrs. Cassius J. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1971. Accession number--M-71.</p>  </acqinfo>
  <bioghist id="aspace_1e3922f2f31cf84a65973f2b64b9f81a">
    <head>Biographical / Historical</head>
<p>Mathematician. Keyser taught mathematics at Columbia University from 1897 and was Adrain Professor of Mathematics, 1904-1927. (Columbia University A.M., 1896; Ph.D., 1901; D.Sci., 1929).</p>  </bioghist>
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    <head>Processing Information</head>
<p>Cataloged Christina Hilton Fenn 07/--/89.</p>  </processinfo>
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    <head>Accruals</head>
<p>Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.</p>  </accruals>
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    <subject authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85082157" source="lcsh">Mathematics -- Study and teaching</subject>
    <subject authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85028378" source="lcsh">College teachers</subject>
    <subject authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85082138" source="lcsh">Mathematicians</subject>
    <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50032400" source="naf">Cardozo, Benjamin N (Benjamin Nathan), 1870-1938</persname>
    <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50042676" source="naf">Korzybski, Alfred, 1879-1950</persname>
    <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no97029083" source="naf">Branch, Anna Hempsted, 1875-1937</persname>
    <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50036853" source="naf">Adams, James Truslow, 1878-1949</persname>
    <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50035207" source="naf">Day, Clarence, 1874-1935</persname>
    <corpname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81024714" source="naf">Columbia University -- : Faculty</corpname>
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