Category: Termcard

Thursday 1st Week: Dr. E.J. Anderson (Clare College Cambridge) “Amazing Mazes” Wednesday 2nd Week: Social Evening: Cheese & Wine Tuesday 3rd Week: Professor J.H. Conway, Professor of Pure Mathematics at Cambridge “17/91, 78/85, 19/51, 23/38, 29/33, 77/29, 95/23, 77/19, 1/17, 11/13, 13/11, 15/14, 15/2, 55/1 and all that!” Tuesday 4th Week: Dr. David Singmaster (Polytechnic…

Tuesday 1st Week: Dr. N.H. Bingham (Westfield College London) “On the toss of a coin” Tuesday 2nd Week: Prof. H.B. Griffiths (Southampton) “The Problem of the three languages and the teaching of mathematics” Tuesday 3rd Week: Dr. R.G. Haydon (Brasenose) Presidential lecture “Taking slices of Hypermangoes” (Postponed from last term) Tuesday 4th Week: Prof. M.R.C…

Tuesday 1st Week: Dr. Peter M. Neumann (Queen’s) “Did Galois deserve to be shot?” Tuesday 2nd Week: Dr. D.O. Tall (Warwick) “Computer Calculus” Tuesday 3rd Week: Dr. M.E. Rayner (St. Hilda’s) “Dido’s Problem” Tuesday 4th Week: Debate: “This house believes that Mathematics is incompatible with Sanity” [Never took place!] Tuesday 5th Week: Dr. J.T. Houghton,…

Tuesday 1st Week: Prof. E. Christopher Zeeman, FRS (Warwick) “Gears from the Greeks”Joint meeting with the ODBMA Thursday 1st Week: Dr. Robin J. Wilson (Open University & Keble) “Stamping through Mathematics” Tuesday 2nd Week: Prof. J.H. Conway (Cambridge) “Games with Groups” Tuesday 3rd Week: Dr. W.B.R. Lickorish (Cambridge) “Knowledge of Knots” Tuesday 4th Week: Prof.…

Tuesday 1st Week: Dr. K.C. Hannabuss (Balliol) “Hilbert and the Problem of Invariants” Tuesday 2nd Week: Dr. T.O. Hawkes (Warwick) “Mathematical Mirth & Malice” [Postponed from Hilary Term 1983] Tuesday 5th Week: Punt Party, starting at 5.45 p.m. Sunday 6th Week: Croquet Match against the Faculty Tuesday 6th Week: Annual Dinner

Tuesday 1st Week: Mr. J. Forster (Nottingham) “Maths examination at 16+” [Joint meeting with the ODBMA] Tuesday 4th Week: Dr. R. Barker (Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe) “A look back at G.H. Hardy” Tuesday 5th Week: Dr. T.O. Hawkes (Warwick) “Mathematical Mirth & Malice” [Postponed until next term] Tuesday 6th Week: Dr. R.G. Haydon (Brasenose)…

Tuesday 1st Week: Dr. Robert R. Laxton (Nottingham) “The mathematics of Ancient Corbelled Tombs and other structures” Tuesday 2nd Week: Dr. Peter M. Neumann (Queen’s) “Things are seldom what they seem” Tuesday 3rd Week: Dr. Peter J. Cameron (Merton) “The Random Graph” Tuesday 4th Week: Dr. D.H. Fowler (Warwick) “On Ratio” Tuesday 6th Week: Mr.…

Tuesday 3rd Week: Prof. D.R. Matravers “Cosmology from a Milne point of view” Wednesday 4th Week: Punt Party Tuesday 5th Week: Mr. N.J. Lord “Rabbits out of hats – paradoxes in analysis” Sunday 6th Week: Croquet Match against the Faculty

Monday 3rd Week: Dr. Morris Dodson (York) “Fractals and Catastrophes, or, the Rough with the Smooth” Saturday 3rd Week: Problems Drive versus the Archimedeans Tuesday 4th Week: Dr. Henderson (Dept. of Programming Research, Oxford) “Functional Geometry – building pictures from pictures using a computer” Tuesday 6th Week: Dr. D.J. Acheson (Jesus) Presidential Address: “Rotating Fluids…

Tuesday 1st Week: Prof. C.A.R. Hoare (Dept. of Programming Research, Oxford) “Incomputability” Tuesday 2nd Week: Dr. Brian Goodwin (Sussex) “Pythagorean Biology: Harmonic Functions and Biological Forms” Tuesday 3rd Week: Prof. A.F.M. Smith (Nottingham) “The Analysis of Discontinuous Change” Tuesday 5th Week: Dr. C.H. Vincent (AWRE, Aldermaston) “The Generation of Truly Random Numbers” Tuesday 6th Week:…