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NBS Technical Advisory Committee for Mathematics

NOV 01, 1958
The following report was submitted earlier this year to the director of the National Bureau of Standards in accordance with the recommendations of the ad hoc committee (“the Kelly Committee”), which was formed in 1953 to evaluate the Bureau’s functions and operations.
A. H. Taub

The National Bureau of Standards Technical Advisory Committee for Mathematics is pleased to report that the program of the Applied Mathematics Division is progressing well and that this division continues to provide excellent mathematical, computational, and statistical services to other agencies of the government, as well as other Bureau divisions. Members of the division are carrying out significant research and training programs in addition to their service duties.

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A. H. Taub, Chairman, National Bureau of Standards, Technical Advisory Committee for Mathematics.

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