Category: Archive
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Termcard for Trinity Term 1957
7 May 1957: Prof. Goodstein (Leicester) “Recursive Arithmetic” 21 May 1957: Members’ Papers: Mr. F. J. Rayner (Hertford) “The square root of -1” Miss Margaret Rochat (St. Hugh’s) and Miss Jillian Beardwood (St. Hugh’s) “Perpetual Motion” 5 June 1957: Dr. I. James “Multiplication on Spheres”Preceded by the AGM
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Termcard for Hilary Term 1957
29 Jan 1957: Prof. Abdul Salam (Imperial College) “Quantum Fields and Elementary Particles” 12 Feb 1957: Dr. Hao Wang “Metamathematics” 26 Feb 1957: Dr. Elmer Brody “Knots and Links” 12 Mar 1957: Prof. Coulson “The Variational Principle”
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Termcard for Michaelmas Term 1956
23 Oct 1956: Prof. R. E. Peierls (Birmingham) “Invariant Methods in Modern Physics” 6 Nov 1956: Mr. J. M. Hammersley “Present and Future Trends in Mathematics” 20 Nov 1956: Dr. T. W. Chaundy “The Printing of Mathematics” 4 Dec 1956: Prof. Titchmarsh “Eigenfunctions”
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Committee for Trinity Term 1956 to Trinity Term 1957
President: Prof. G. Temple, FRS (Queen’s) Chairman: Miss J. E. Beardwood (St. Hugh’s) Secretary: Mr. R. Brown (New) Treasurer: Mr. S. G. Brush (Magdalen)
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Termcard for Trinity Term 1956
1 May 1956: Dr. L. R. Fox (National Physical Laboratory) “Modern Computation” 15 May 1956: Mr. R. Boyer (New) “Guests at a Table” 29 May 1956: Dr. P. Watson (Merton) “Football Pools”Preceded by the AGM
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Termcard for Hilary Term 1956
29 Jan 1956: Mr. D. G. Kendall “The Mathematics of Infection” 7 Feb 1956: Fr. C. W. O’Hara S.J. (Beaumont College, Windsor) “Constructions in Algebra” 21 Feb 1956: Members’ Papers: Mr. S. G. Brush (Magdalen) Mr. R. Brown (New) “The Axiom of Choice” 28 Feb 1956: Brains Trust with Prof. G. Temple, Dr. J. Spiers,…
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Termcard for Michaelmas Term 1955
21 Oct 1955: Mr. D. F. Lawden (Birmingham College of Technology) “Mathematical Problems of Astronautics” 1 Nov 1955: Dr. Higman “Burnside’s Problem” 15 Nov 1955: Dr. Handel Davies “Electrical Chicken Runs”
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Termcard for Trinity Term 1955
17 May 1955: Dr. C. W. Kilmister (King’s College, London) “Why does space have three dimensions?” 31 May 1955: Mr. J. G. Mauldon “Bluff”Preceded by the AGM
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Committee for Trinity Term 1955 to Trinity Term 1956
President: Prof. J. H. C. Whitehead Chairman: Mr. B. Andrews (Keble) Secretary: Rev. J. S. Paine (Campion Hall) Treasurer: Mr. T. A. Pritchard (St. John’s)
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Termcard for Hilary Term 1955
25 Jan 1955: Dr. F. Smithies (Cambridge) “Continuous Geometry” 8 Feb 1955: Members’ Papers: Mr. T. A. Pritchard (St. John’s) “Isaac Newton” Mr. B. B. Dibben (St. John’s) “A generalisation on the billiard ball problem” Rev. J. Paine (Campion Hall) “Quartics” Mr. B. Andrews (Keble) “Arithmetic” 22 Feb 1955: Prof. J. H. C. Whitehead “The…