Category: Termcard

  • Termcard for Hilary Term 1948

    28 Jan 1948: Mr. P. D. Watson (New) “Pathological Functions” 11 Feb 1948: Members’ Papers: Franz Kahn (Queen’s) “The Lorentz Transformation” Mr. N. Mahalski (Brasenose) spoke on solving problems in crypt. arithmetic Gordon Raisbeck (New) “The Constructions of Mascheroni” 25 Feb 1948: Prof. L. J. Mordell (Cambridge) “The Life and Work of the Indian mathematician…

  • Termcard for Michaelmas Term 1947

    22 Oct 1947: Mr E. C. Thompson “Kakeya’s Problem” 4 Nov 1947: Mr. H. I. Scoins (Brasenose) “Pythagorean Triplets” 19 Nov 1947: Prof. G. Temple (King’s College, London) “Supersonics”

  • Termcard for Trinity Term 1947

    7 May 1947: Mr. B. P. Pain “The Eight Queens Problem” Mr. P. Hilton “Aspects of Heaviside’s Operational Calculus” 21 May 1947: Mr. J. S. de Wet “The Role of Mathematics in Theoretical Physics” 4 June 1947: Prof. Whittaker “Expansions of Zero”

  • Termcard for Hilary Term 1947

    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”

  • Termcard for Trinity Term 1941

    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”

  • Termcard for Hilary Term 1941

    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”

  • Termcard for Michaelmas Term 1940

    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”

  • Termcard for Trinity Term 1940

    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…

  • Termcard for Hilary Term 1940

    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

  • Termcard for Michaelmas Term 1939

    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”