Section 4.3 Speakers
Table 4.3.1 lists information about the invited lectures at the annual meetings of the Philadelphia Section from 1933 to 1941. During those nine years the section sponsored 38 addresses by 32 individuals associated with 19 different institutions. The table reveals that four different faculty members from the University of Pennsylvania presented a total of six lectures in this period, with James Shohat and Hans Rademacher speaking twice, and James A. Clarkson and E. E. Witmer once each. Shohat and Rademacher are profiled at the end of the chapter. Next came Princeton University with three different speakers who delivered four talks: Samuel S. Wilks (2), Salomon Bochner, and Albert W. Tucker.
| Year | Speaker | Institution | Title |
| 1933 | Starke | Rutgers | Binomial congruences |
| Brinkmann | Swarthmore | The interpretation of imaginaries in projective geometry | |
| Wilder | Michigan | Connectivity of spaces | |
| Kasner | Columbia | Polygons and groups | |
| 1934 | Shohat | Penn | On some applications of Taylor’s Formula |
| Oakley | Haverford | On successive approximations in differential equations | |
| Benner | Lafayette | Some geometry associated with \(\displaystyle \lim_{N\rightarrow\infty}\left(1+\frac{1}{N}\right)^N\) | |
| Moore | IAS | Mathematics and poetry | |
| 1935 | Bailey | Lafayette | Collegiate curricula in mathematics in this section |
| Witmer | Penn | Quantum mechanics | |
| Hedlund | Bryn Mawr | A macroanalysis of some simple dynamical systems | |
| Rau | Moravian | The teaching of mathematics in the Pennsylvania German schools | |
| Bochner | Princeton | Almost-periodic functions | |
| 1936 | Clarkson | Penn | Remarks on abstract spaces |
| Cairns | Lehigh | Triangulations and related problems | |
| Wilks | Princeton | Inverse probability and fiducial inference | |
| Murray | F&M | The undergraduate comprehensive exam | |
| 1937 | Grant | Rutgers | Farey series |
| Owens, F. | Penn State | Some multiple perspective relationships | |
| Rademacher | Rademacher | On the Bernoulli numbers and the Von Staudt- Clausen theorem | |
| Wheeler, A.H. | H S Mass. | Stellated polyhedra, illustrated with models | |
| 1938 | Wheeler, A. P | Bryn Mawr | Functions and sequences |
| Tucker | Princeton | Undergraduate courses in topology and other phases of geometry | |
| Carpenter | Ger. Acad. | Meeting the challenge to secondary mathematics | |
| Yates | Maryland | Linkages | |
| 1939 | Lehmer | Lehigh | Mechanical aids in the theory of numbers |
| Oakley | Haverford | Equations of polygonal configurations | |
| Shohat | Penn | Orthogonal polynomials in relation to Lagrangian and Hermitian interpolation | |
| Johnson | Library | Old mathematical books and instruments in the Schwenkfelder Library | |
| Owens, H. | Penn State | Mathematics clubs, old and new | |
| 1940 | Oxtoby | Bryn Mawr | Transitive flows |
| Vanderslice | Lehigh | Modern methods in differential geometry | |
| Rademacher | Penn | On Dedekind sums | |
| Wilks | Princeton | Statistics involved in College Entrance Exams | |
| 1941 | Bailey | Lafayette | The problem of the square pyramid |
| Brinkmann | Swarthmore | Cubic congruences | |
| Maker | Rutgers | Recent developments in the Cauchy theory of analytic functions | |
| Courant | NYU | Problems of stability and instability demonstrated by soap film experiments |
Table 4.3.2 provides affiliations for the remaining institutions that housed more than one speaker. Bryn Mawr College, Lafayette College, Lehigh University, and Rutgers University accounted for three lectures each. In addition, Haverford College, Swarthmore College, and the Pennsylvania State University each accounted for two lectures. It is notable that the two speakers from Penn State were the husband-and-wife team of Frederick and Helen Owens.
| Institution | Speakers |
| Bryn Mawr | Hedlund, Oxtoby, Wheeler |
| Haverford | Oakley (2) |
| Lafayette | Bailey (2), Benne |
| Lehigh | Cairns, Lehmer, Vanderslice |
| Penn State | F. Owens, H. Owens |
| Rutgers | Grant, Maker, Starke |
| Swarthmore | Brinkmann (2) |
Of the remaining 10 institutions that housed one speaker each, four lie within the Philadelphia Section: Moravian College, Franklin & Marshall College, Germantown Academy (a private high school in Philadelphia), and the Schwenkfelder Library.
