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[Identification of item], in the Department of Mathematics of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Records #70155, University Archives, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from the Department of Mathematics in June 2023 (RT 20230606.1).

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• Education, Higher--North Carolina--History.
• General education--North Carolina--History.
• Mathematics--Study and teaching (Higher)--North Carolina.
• Universities and colleges--North Carolina--Departments.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Curricula.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--History.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Department of Mathematics.

The University of North Carolina has had mathematics instructors on campus since classes began in 1795, with Charles Wilson Harris serving as the University’s first tutor mathematics. Joseph P. Caldwell became a "Presiding Professor" of mathematics in 1796.

Contains records documenting the Department of Mathematics beginning in the late 1960s. Materials include department meeting minutes, graduate school admissions data, curriculum changes, annual reports, commencement information, and faculty curriculum vitae.