Category: Archive

12 Feb 1947: Mr. W. H. Cockcroft “Boole’s Algebra of Logic” 27 Feb 1947: Prof. W. V. D. Hodge “The Development of Algebraic Geometry”

Monday 12th May W.L. Ferrar (Hertford) “Generalized Derivates and Integrals” Tuesday 20th May D.C. Pack (New) “Sound Waves” Wednesday 28th May Members’ Papers A.W. Babister “Stream Function and Velocity Potential” Tuesday 3rd June Dr G.L. Camm “The Movements of the Stars”

Wednesday 29th January Dr Olga Taussky “Matrices” Wednesday 12th February Members’ Papers Friday 21st February P.D. Oldham (St. John’s) “The Calculus of Finite Differences” Wednesday 26th February Miss G.K. Stanley “Some Problems in the Theory of Numbers” Wednesday 12th March Dr I.W. Busbridge (St Hugh’s) “Summability”

Friday 1st November Mr J.H.C. Whitehead “Knots” Wednesday 13th November Members’ Papers Wednesday 20th Novermber Miss M.G. Adam “The Mapping of the Solar Spectrum” Wednesday 4th December Dr O. Taussky “Matrices”

Tuesday 30th April Mr K.C. Bowen (Balliol) “Adjoint Equations” Friday 3rd May Mr K.C. Bowen (Balliol) “Invention of Logarithms” Thursday 9th May A.P. Cobbe (Somerville) “The Royal Society” Monday 13th May Mr M.H.A. Newman (St. John’s, Cambridge) “The Lebesgue Pavement Theorem” Tuesday 21st May Members’ Papers Evening Friday 24th May D.S. Evans “Wallis” Wednesday 29th…

24th Jan 1940: Dr J. H. C. Thompson (Wadham) “Solid States” 31st Jan 1940: Members’ Papers 6th Feb 1940: Prof. Hartree “The Mathematical Integration of Differential Equations” 13rd Feb 1940: Debate: “Mathematics is not an end in itself” 21st Feb 1940: “Indeterminacy” 28th Feb 1940: Mathematical film show

25th Oct 1939: J. B. S. Haldane “Test of agreement between theory and observation” 6th Nov 1939: Dr E. G. C. Poole (New College) “Eulerian Hypergeometric Integrals” 14th Nov 1939: J. H. C. Whitehead “Sharing a Ham Sandwich” 22nd Nov 1939: E. C. Thompson (New College) “Regular Solids”

9th May 1939: “Absorption lines in stellar spectrum” at the University Observatory 16th May 1939: “Ideas from Cambridge” 23th May 1939: “Ramanujan’s Notebooks” 30th May 1939: J. H. C. Whitehead “The Four Colour Problem”

8th Feb 1939: “What is Maths?” 17th Feb 1939: “Mutuality” 27th Feb 1939: H. O. Newboult (Merton) “n-dimensional geometry”