DOI
10.1090/bull/1888
Abstract
In 1929, Caroline Bamberger Fuld and her brother, Louis Bamberger, sold their department stores, Bamberger & Co., at a particularly timely moment. They invested their sizeable fortune in a new academic initiative in America, an institute devoted to research that would go by the name of the Institute for Advanced Study. This paper introduces two colleagues, Abraham Flexner and Oswald Veblen, and explores the cooperation and conflict between them as they worked alongside one another to shape the Institute for Advanced Study and the School of Mathematics within it.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
4-29-2026
Publisher Statement
© Copyright 2026 American Mathematical Society
Recommended Citation
Carvajalino, Juan and Dumbaugh, Della, "Cooperation and conflict: Oswald Veblen and Abraham Flexner" (2026). Department of Math & Statistics Faculty Publications. 294.
https://scholarship.richmond.edu/mathcs-faculty-publications/294
