In 1952, Fred Gruenberger, a supervisor in the Math Department computing lab(!), published the “Computing Manual” through University of Wisconsin Press. It was the first documents to show how computers could be used to do …
History
John B. Parkinson, Professor from 1867-1872, participated in the California Gold Rush
One of the first professors in the Math Department was, in his youth, one of the many Americans lured to the wild west of California during the Gold Rush. This article, from 1922, has Professor …