Category: Termcard

  • Termcard for Michaelmas Term 1966

    Tuesday 2nd week: A. Gilmour (Imperial) “Computers – and what comes out of them” Tuesday 3rd week: Prof. H. B. Griffiths (Southampton) “Structure of 2-dimensional surfaces” Tuesday 4th week: C. N. Beard (Ministry of Defence) “Methods and Applications of Computer Simulation” Tuesday 5th week: Brains Trust on mathematics teaching in 6th formsWith Dr. H. Davies…

  • Termcard for Michaelmas Term 1965

    Tuesday 2nd week: K. C. Bowen (Ministry of Defence) “War Games” Wednesday 2nd week: Wine and Cheese Party Tuesday 3rd week: Prof. Abraham Robinson (California) Tuesday 4th week: Brains Trust on the teaching of mathematics in OxfordWith J. S. de Wet, Dr. M. E. Rayner, Prof. L. Fox, Dr. J. D. A. Welsh and Prof.…

  • Termcard for Michaelmas Term 1960

    18 Oct 1960: Prof. C. A. Coulson “What is Mathematics?” 1 Nov 1960: Dr. P. du Val “The 59 Icosahedra” 8 Nov 1960: Members’ Papers: John Ursell (Queen’s) “Babylonian Mathematics” Michael Eastham (Merton) “Dual numbers and dual vectors” 15 Nov 1960: Prof. R. Rado “Epsilontics without tears” 29 Nov 1960: Prof. G. Temple “Betwixt and…

  • Termcard for Trinity Term 1960

    26 Apr 1960: Lady Bertha Jefferys (Cambridge) “Top People” 3 May 1960: Prof. P. A. Moran (National University of Australia) “Mathematics and Natural Selection” 10 May 1960: Prof. R. H. Bruck (Wisconsin) “Euler in his blindness” 17 May 1960: Members’ Papers: Robert Elliott (New) “Godel’s Theorem” Sylvia Bull (Somerville) “Plaited Polyhedra” John Jeacock (Corpus Christi)…

  • Termcard for Hilary Term 1960

    26 Jan 1960: Mr. J. Seager (Safety in Mines Dept. of the Ministry of Power) 9 Feb 1960: Mr. J. G. Mauldon “Percolation” 23 Feb 1960: Dr. John Stallings (Princeton) “Knots” 8 Mar 1960: Dr. S. L. Altmann “Uses of Symmetry”

  • Termcard for Michaelmas Term 1959

    20 Oct 1959: Mr. Trevor Fletcher “Mathematical Films” 3 Nov 1959: Mr. K. A. H. Gravett “Do-it-yourself” 17 Nov 1959: Mr. Wylie “Plastering” 1 Dec 1959: Dr. A. B. Tayler “The Dam Busters”

  • Termcard for Trinity Term 1959

    28 Apr 1959: Prof. Rosenbaum (Oregon) “Commutativity” 5 May 1959: Mr. R. E. Miles (Cambridge) “A peculiar invariance in probability theory” 12 May 1959: Prof. Emrys Thomas “Groups and Loops” 19 May 1959: Members’ Papers: John Crossley (St. John’s) “To Infinity and Back” Maureen Houghton (St. Hugh’s) “Treacle Music”Preceded by the AGM

  • Termcard for Hilary Term 1959

    23 Jan 1959: Dr. E. A. Maxwell (Cambridge) “To err is human” 10 Feb 1959: Mr. Hopkinson read Dr. Natanson’s paper on “Oil-Reservoir Engineering” 24 Feb 1959: Dr. J. T. Lewis “Non-linear Oscillations” or “Topology for Sanitary Engineers – a plea” 10 Mar 1959: Dr. M. G. Barratt “A Problem on Fur”

  • Termcard for Michaelmas Term 1958

    21 Oct 1958: Dr. G. Higman, FRS “Words within Words” or “Partial Well-order” 4 Nov 1958: Mr. J. S. de Wet “The Theory of Distributions” 18 Nov 1958: Prof. Plaskett “Solar Physics” 2 Dec 1958: Prof. D. H. Wilkinson “The Classification of Elementary Particles”

  • Termcard for Trinity Term 1958

    29 Apr 1958: Prof. Milnor “The Theory of Games” 6 May 1958: Dr. C. W. Kilmister (King’s College, London) “The Dimensionless Physical Constants” 13 May 1958: Dr. E. C. Cherry (Imperial College) “An Outline of Information Theory” 20 May 1958: Members’ Papers: Mr. Brown “Topology” Dr. Brush “Flexagons”Preceded by the AGM

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