VOLUME I -------- mmmxx yyyy-mm-dd fff joint speaker title venue ppp aud 1919-02-22 i discursive meeting (date uncertain, possibly on the 15th) GA1 1 13 1 1919-04-29 i inaugural meeting GI 9 21 2 1919-05-06 Mr. E.A. Milne "Gauss' Error Law" GI 13 25 3 1919-05-21 Mr. G.H. Hardy "The Elementary Theory of Infinite Numbers" ND 17 30 4 1919-10-15 Mr. B.M. Wilson "Diophantine Approximation" GL 27 25 5 1919-10-29 Prof. A.S. Eddington "The Equilibrium of a Gaseous Star" ND 33 30 6 1919-11-12 Mr. S. Pollard "The Lebesgue Integral" GM 37 25 7 1919-12-03 Mr. D.C. Henry "Thermodynamics" NA 42 25 8 1920-01-21 Mr. W.W. Rouse Ball "Indigenous Japanese Mathematics" GK6 47 25 9 1920-02-11 Mr. E.S. Pearson "From Pythagoras to Jeans" GL 51 15 10 1920-02-18 Mr. G.I. Taylor "Statistical Representation of Random Curves" NL 55 24 11 1920-03-03 Mr. A.F. Pullinger "The Elementary Theory of Radiation" GM 59 16 12 1920-04-28 Mr. E.A. Milne "Vectors and Tensors" GL 65 30 13 1920-05-12 Mr. T.A. Brown "Cardinal Function" NA 71 12 14 1920-05-26 e Mr. P.W. Burbidge "Atomic Structure" GK 75 40+ 15 1920-10-20 Mr. S. Pollard "Jordan's Theorem" GM 81 20 16 1920-11-04 Mr. E.C. Francis "Ideal Numbers" GI 85 30 17 1920-11-17 Mr. J.H. Grace "Probability" NC 89 40 18 1920-12-01 Mr. N.M. Shah "Divergent Series" GM 91 20 19 1921-01-27 Mr. F.P. White "The Diffraction of Electric Waves by the Earth" ND 97 30 20 1921-02-16 Mr. T.M. Cherry "Vectorial Mechanics" GI 101 20 21 1921-02-23 Mr. R.H. Fowler "The Perfect Gas Laws and the Quantum Theory" ND 103 35 22 1921-03-09 b Mr. T.A. Brown "Singularities of Taylor Series" KA 107 9 23 1921-05-04 Mr. J.E. Littlewood "Prime Numbers" ND 113 25 24 1921-05-18 e Mr. C.D. Ellis "Fields of Force in the Atom" GM 117 25 25 1921-10-19 Mr. C.G. Darwin "Crystals" ND 125 38 26 1921-11-09 Mr. E.F. Collingwood "Picard's Theorem" BA 133 20 27 1921-11-16 Mr. L.L. Whyte "X-rays" GI 139 28 28 1921-11-30 Mr. E. Cunningham "Relativity and the Problem of Measurement" NL 143 40 29 1922-02-01 Mr. W.M. Smart "Navigation" NA 149 25 30 1922-02-15 Mr. E.A. Milne "An Integral Equation" ND 155 25 31 1922-03-02 Mr. H.W. Richmond "Pascal's Mystic Hexagram" NC 159 25 32 1922-03-08 Mr. A.E. Ingham "Division of the Circle" KA 165 25 33 1922-05-10 Mr. W.M.H. Greaves "Saturn's Rings" JCR 171 17 34 1922-05-22 ef Mr. S. Pollard (prop) "Applied Maths should be instantly and radically revised" (passed) JCR 175 33 Mr. T.M. Cherry (opp) 35 1922-10-25 Prof. Sir E. Rutherford "Atomic Collisions" JCR 187 35 36 1922-11-08 Mr. C.G.F. James "Kummer's Quartic Surface" GQ 191 14 37 1922-11-22 b Mr. J.C. Burkill "Length and Area" ND 193 24 38 1922-12-05 Mr. J.S. Bentwich "Equipartition of Energy" NA 195 25 39 1923-01-24 Mr. F.G. Maunsell "Magic Squares" KB 199 10 40 1923-02-07 Dr. H. Lamb "Theory of Elastic Plates" NC 201 20 41 1923-02-21 Mr. W.J. Webber "Approximation by Polynomials" BC 203 17 42 1923-03-07 Col. Sir G.P. Lenox-Conyngham "Geodetic Methods" NL 205 17 43 1923-04-25 Dr. J.E. Jones "Kinetic Theory of a non-uniform Gas" NA 209 18 44 1923-05-09 Mr. A. Berry "Continuous Groups" ND 211 18 45 1923-05-23 e Mr. H.W.B. Skinner "Magnetism" GQ 213 23 VOLUME II --------- mmmxx yyyy-mm-dd fff joint speaker title venue ppp aud 46 1923-10-17 b Mr. H. Glauert "Aerodynamics" NC 1 28 46a 1923-10-24 b Prof. E. Landau "A Theorem of Minkowski's" ND 4 35 47 1923-10-31 b Mr. E.C. Francis "Denjoy-Stieltjes' Integral" NL 6 25 48 1923-11-14 Mr. J.B.S. Haldane "Natural Selection" JCR 8 30 49 1923-11-28 Mr. R. Cooper "Automorphic Functions" KK 9 25 50 1924-01-23 Prof. J.J. Thomson "Speculations as to the Nature of Light" OCR 11 65 50a 1924-02-06 Adams Prof. H.F. Baker "Our Orderly-Minded Friend" OCR 13 50 51 1924-02-13 Dr. G.N. Watson "Approximations" NG 13 35 52 1924-02-27 Mr. S. Pollard "The Thermionic Valve" ND 15 30 53 1924-03-12 Mr. W.R. Dean "Elastic Stability" GL 16 8 54 1924-05-14 Mr. T.M. Cherry "Celestial Mechanics" GG 18 25 55 1924-05-21 e Mr. J. Mercer "Functions of a Positive Type" NL 20 56 1924-11-05 b Mr. G.I. Taylor "The Deformation of Metallic Crystals" NC 22 57 1924-11-12 Mr. T.G. Room "Latin Squares" GG 25 58 1924-11-26 Mr. L.H. Thomas "Krönecker's Theorem" KB 27 59 1924-12-03 Dr. P.A. MacMahon "The Foundations of Repeat Geometry" NG 29 59a 1925-01-28 Adams Mr. J.E. Littlewood "Prime Numbers" SJC 31 60 1925-02-11 Mr. F.S.G. Rawlins "The Degeneration of Gases" BC 33 61 1925-02-25 Prof. E.W. Hobson "A Classical Theorem in the Theory of Fourier Series" ND 35 62 1925-03-11 Mr. F.G. Maunsell "The Four Colour Problem" GH 36 63 1925-05-06 Mr. S. Pollard "Report of the Sub-Committee on the Revision of Applied Mathematics" NL 38 64 1925-05-27 be Prof. G. Polya "Geometrical Properties of the Distribution of Zeroes of some Integral Functions" ND 42 65 1925-10-21 b Prof. G.H. Hardy "Some Theorems concerning Series of Positive Terms" ND 45 66 1925-11-04 Dr. C.D. Ellis "Conversion of Radiation" ND 48 67 1925-11-18 Mr. H. Jeffreys "The Age of the Earth" OCR 50 68 1925-12-02 Dr. C.D. Broad "Kant's Theory of Space and Geometry" NG 51 68a 1926-01-27 Adams Prof. A.S. Eddington "The Problem of Sub-Atomic Energy" OCR 54 69 1926-02-10 b Dr. P. Kapitza "The Gyromagnetic Effect" GG 55 70 1926-02-24 Mr. R. Cooper "Some Inequalities" KA 57 71 1926-03-10 Mr. W.M. Smart "Stellar Clusters" GD 58 72 1926-06-04 bef Mr. S. Pollard (prop) "Mathematics is mainly nonsense and commonly dull" (passed) 59 Mr. J.W. Brunyate (opp) 73 1926-10-27 Mr. E.F. Collingwood "Some recent developments in the theory of Integral Functions" GC 63 74 1926-11-03 Mr. R.V. Southwell "The Stability Problems in Hydrodynamics" GG 65 75 1926-11-17 Mr. L.H. Thomas "The capture and loss of electrons by alpha particles" NG 68 76 1926-12-01 Mr. R.H. Fowler "General Forms of Statistical Mechanics" GH 69 77 1927-01-26 Mr. C.T.L. Caton "The Tensor Calculus and Relativity" KA 71 78 1927-02-09 Dr. J. Chadwick "Atomic Nuclei" GD 73 79 1927-02-23 Adams Prof. E.V. Appleton "Some Wireless Problems" SJC 74 80 1927-03-09 Mr. S. Pollard "What is Mathematics?" ND 75 81 1927-04-27 Mr. S.W.P. Steen "Continued Fractions" GH 76 82 1927-05-11 e Mr. L.H. Thomas "Some Applications of Mathematics to Wireless" KA 77 82a 1927-06-10 b Business Meeting (Minutes expunged) 80 83 1927-10-19 Mr. J.B.S. Haldane "Mathematical Biology" GM 82 84 1927-11-02 b Mr. J.A. Gaunt "The History of the Quantum Theory" GG 85 85 1927-11-16 Mr. A.S. Besicovitch "Integral Functions of Order less than one" LR3 87 86 1927-11-30 Prof. H.F. Baker "Some Applications of the Calculus of Matrices" ND 89 87 1928-01-25 Mr. H.S.M. Coxeter "Regular Polyhedra" GG 91 88 1928-02-08 Mr. H.D. Ursell "Veronese's Surface and its Projections" GG 94 88a 1928-02-27 Adams Mr. F.J.M. Stratton "Recent Eclipses" LR5 96 89 1928-03-07 Dr. T.M. Cherry "An Application of the Theory of Sets of Points to Differential Equations" NC 97 90 1928-05-02 Mr. H.W. Richmond "Outlines of Geometry" GG 99 91 1928-05-16 e Dr. P. Du Val "De Sitter's World" NC 101 92 1928-10-17 Mr. F.P. Ramsey "Mathematical Economics" GG 104 93 1928-10-31 Mr. W.L. Edge "Ruled Surfaces" KD 106 94 1928-11-14 Mr. M.J. Dean "The History of Elasticity" GM 108 95 1928-11-28 Prof. J.E. Littlewood "Some Problems in the Theory of Numbers" GG 110 96 1929-01-23 Miss M.D. Kennedy "Primitives" NC 112 96a 1929-02-06 Adams Dr. P.A.M. Dirac "Principles of Quantum Mechanics" SJC 113 97 1929-02-20 Mr. W.M. Smart "Stellar Motions" ND 114 98 1929-03-13 Mr. F.P. White "The Contact Problem of Clebsch" GG 116 99 1929-05-01 Mr. L.A. Pars "The Four Colour Problem" GH 118 100 1929-05-15 Prof. J.J. Thomson "Some Reminiscences of Cambridge Mathematics and Mathematicians" OCR 119 101 1929-05-29 e Dr. T.G. Room "Finite Geometries" KK 120 102 1929-10-23 Dr. H. Lamb "Mathematical Style" ND 123 103 1929-11-06 Prof. A.S. Eddington "The End of the World" OCR 125 104 1929-11-20 Mr. L.C. Young "Integration in Topological Space" LR3 127 105 1929-12-05 b Mr. J.G. Semple "Determinantal Quartic Loci" KK8 130 106 1930-01-29 Mr. H.W. Richmond "On Some Musical Properties of Cubes" NL 133 107 1930-02-12 Dr. J.A. Carroll "The Computation and Observation of Eclipses" OCR 135 108 1930-02-19 Mr. G.W. Ward "Transfinite Numbers" GD 137 109 1930-03-05 Adams Mr. R.H. Fowler "Possible Relationships between alpha, beta and gamma rays of Radium C" OCR 139 110 1930-05-14 Mr. D. Shoenberg "Constructions with only a compass" GE6 141 Mr. J.A. Todd "Kirkman's Schoolgirls Problem" Mr. P. Du Val "Wallpaper" 111 1930-05-28 e Dr. L. Wittgenstein "The Foundations of Mathematics" OCR 144 112 1930-10-15 e Mr. J.C.P. Miller "Archimedean Solids" GC2 146 113 1930-10-29 Mr. J.A. Ratcliffe "The Effective Height of the Heaviside Layer" OCR 149 114 1930-11-12 Mr. P. Du Val "The Rhind Papyrus" GC4 152 115 1930-11-26 b Mr. C.A. Coulson "Gyroscopes" HF 155 116 1931-01-28 Mr. A.E. Ingham "The Sieve of Eratosthenes" ND4 157 117 1931-02-11 Adams Dr. A.A. Robb "The Idea of Order as a Foundation of Space-Time Theory" SJC 158 118 1931-02-25 Mr. J.B.S. Haldane "Some Difference Equations arising out of Biological Problems" OCR 159 119 1931-03-04 Dr. P. Kapitza "Physical Measurements in Short Times" KA5 161 120 1931-05-13 Mr. J.C. Burkill "Non-differentiable Functions" KN 162 121 1931-05-27 e Mr. R.E.A.C. Paley "Construction with Pencil and Ruler; or, Geometry without Circles" KI 164 VOLUME III ---------- mmmxx yyyy-mm-dd fff joint speaker title venue ppp aud 122 1931-10-14 Prof. G.H. Hardy "The Theorem of the Arithmetic and Geometric Mean" OCR 32 123 1931-10-28 Mr. N.F. Mott "Wave Mechanics" HI 35 124 1931-11-04 Sir F. Dyson "The Greenwich Observatory" OCR 38 125 1931-11-18 Mr. H.S.M. Coxeter "Black and White Triangles" GE 41 126 1932-02-03 Mr. G.I. Taylor "Air Flow at speeds greater than that of Sound" NA 46 127 1932-02-17 Prof. N. Wiener "The Brownian Movement" OCR 48 128 1932-02-24 Mr. J. Wishart "Combinatorial Analysis and Statistics" GC 50 129 1932-03-03 Adams Mr. W.L. Edge "Properties of Certain Twisted Curves" GC 52 130 1932-05-11 Mr. A.J.H. Morrell "The Strophoid and the Lemniscate" GE 55 131 1932-05-25 be Mr. M.H.L. Pryce "The Tidal Theory of the Origin of the Solar System" BC 57 132 1932-10-19 Prof. A.S. Eddington "The Expanding Universe" OCR 64 133 1932-10-26 be Business Meeting OCR 67 8 134 1932-11-02 b Mr. A.S. Besicovitch "Some problems connected with the mean value of functions of complex and real variables" HA 69 135 1932-11-17 Mr. E. Cunningham "Crystal Lattices" GN 72 136 1932-11-30 e Mr. J. Bronowski "The Geometry of One Dimension" GP 74 137 1933-02-01 Mr. H.D. Ursell "Two types of non-rectifiable curves" BC 77 138 1933-02-15 Adams Prof. P.A.M. Dirac "Half-Vectors" SJC 77 139 1933-02-28 b Business Meeting BC 78 140 1933-03-01 Mr. S.W.P. Steen "Functions of an infinite number of variables" KL 78 141 1933-03-08 Dr. F.P. White "Differential Geometry - Metrical, Affine and Projective" KE 79 142 1933-05-10 Mr. W.R. Dean "Photo-Elasticity" HO 82 143 1933-05-24 e Mr. J.H. Pearse "A Problem in Number Arrangement" HD2 83 Mr. M. Hall "Diophantine Equations" 144 1933-10-21 b Dr. H. Spencer Jones "The Structure of Space" NC2 92 37 145 1933-11-01 Mr. C.A. Coulson "Mathematics and Chemistry" HM1 96 20 146 1933-11-15 b Mr. H.S.M. Coxeter "Reflections" HL1 99 20 147 1933-11-29 e Mr. P. Du Val "The Surfaces of Veronese and Steiner" BE1 102 25 148 1934-01-31 Prof. R. Courant "Some Problems in the Calculus of Variations" OCR 107 30 149 1934-02-14 Adams Prof. G.H. Hardy "Fermat's and Mersenne's Numbers" OCR 109 50 150 1934-02-21 Prof. Lord E. Rutherford "The Transmutation of Matter" OCR 112 50 151 1934-03-07 b Prof. H.F. Baker "A Differential Equation of the Third Order associated with a familiar Group" GI3 115 21 152 1934-05-09 Dr. S. Chandrasekhar "Polytropic Distributions" GC2 118 18 153 1934-05-23 e Mr. G.W. Morgan "The Growth of Functions" 120 24 154 1934-10-17 Prof. E.A. Milne (title not recorded) OCR 123 49 155 1934-10-31 Mr. M. Born "Some Fundamental Conceptions of Physics" OCR 124 41 156 1934-11-14 Mr. T.G. Room "Freedom in Geometry" OCR 126 157 1934-11-28 e Mr. M.H.L. Pryce "The Gamma Function" 127 158 1935-01-30 Mr. L.A. Pars "Pfaffian Forms" OCR 129 159 1935-02-14 Adams Mr. H. Jeffreys "Scientific Method" SJC 131 160 1935-02-27 Dr. R. Rado "Some Combinatorial Problems" BE2 132 161 1935-03-06 b Mr. H. Davenport "Greek Mathematics" OCR 132 162 1935-05-15 Mr. H.M. Cundy "Knots" HL1 134 19 163 1935-05-22 Discussion, "Does it Matter?" GC4 136 164 1935-06-05 be Mr. J.H. Pearse "Some Elementary Theorems of Integral Functions" KI4 137 165 1935-10-23 Dr. H.M. Taylor "A New Theory of Relativity" OCR 141 25 166 1935-11-06 Prof. G.I. Taylor "Turbulence" OCR 143 167 1935-11-27 Dr. H.S.M. Coxeter "The Fifty Nine Icosahedra" GI3 145 168 1935-12-04 e Mr. W.R. Dean "Biharmonic Analysis" OCR 147 169 1936-02-12 Mr. P. Hall "Fields of Numbers" OCR 151 170 1936-02-19 Mr. A.S. Besicovitch "Geometrical Entities from the point of view of the General Theory of Aggregates" KI4 153 171 1936-02-27 Adams Mr. W.M. Smart "Variable Stars" OCR 156 43 172 1936-03-11 Dr. E.F. Collingwood "Integral Equations" OCR 158 173 1936-04-30 Mr. E. Cunningham "Some aspects of Mathematical teaching and examinations at Cambridge" OCR 160 174 1936-05-20 e Mr. A. Green "Gliding on the Surface of Water" HD8 162 175 1936-10-21 Mr. F.P. White "Eggs" OCR 165 176 1936-11-11 Mr. M.H.A. Newman "Finitist Mathematics" OCR 168 177 1936-11-25 Mr. H. Rottenberg "Graphical and Mechanical Calculations in Engineering" OCR 170 178 1936-12-02 e Mr. D.M.A. Leggett "Certain Thin Plate Problems in the theory of Elastic Stability" OCR 173 179 1937-01-27 Mr. J. Wishart "Statistics" OCR 175 180 1937-02-18 Adams Dr. S. Goldstein "The Motion of Fluids" SJC 176 181 1937-02-24 Mr. H.A. Heilbronn "The Distribution of Primes" OCR 178 182 1937-05-13 v Prof. M.L.E. Oliphant Visit to the High Voltage Laboratory 181 183 1937-05-19 be Mr. H.J.H. Sisson "Ideals" OCR 182 184 1937-10-20 Mr. A.E. Ingham "A Little about Numbers" OCR 186 185 1937-10-27 Dr. H. Jeffreys "Earthquakes" OCR 189 186 1937-11-17 Dr. G.F.C. Searle "The Dynamics of Electrified Bodies" OCR 192 187 1937-12-01 e Prof. G.H. Hardy "Partitions" OCR 195 188 1938-01-19 Mr. W.T. Tutte "Bosh(x) and Allied Functions" OCR 198 189 1938-02-02 Dr. J.A. Todd "Pascal's Hexagram" OCR 200 190 1938-02-16 Adams Mr. W.R. Dean "The Biharmonic Equation" LR3 201 190a 1938-02-19 v Visit to the Solar Physics Observatory 203 190b 1938-02-26 d TCNSS Dinner 203 50 191 1938-03-02 Dr. C.A. Coulson "Killing Germs" OCR 204 192 1938-03-17 v Visit to Differential Analyser 206 20 193 1938-04-27 Dr. N.A. de Bruyne "Building an Aeroplane" LR3 207 194 1938-05-11 e Dr. R. v.d.R. Wooley "Eclipses" OCR 210 194a 1938-05-25 p Society Photograph 213 40 195 1938-10-17 Prof. F.J.M. Stratton "New Stars" OCR 215 196 1938-10-31 b Mr. F.C. Strachan "Telephone Repeater Stations" OCR 218 197 1938-11-07 Mr. C.A.B. Smith "Fish Functions" OCR 225 198 1938-11-14 Dr. M.L. Cartwright "Convex Regions" OCR 228 199 1938-11-28 e Prof. E.V. Appleton "Solar Radiation Changes during the Sunspot cycle" OCR 230 200 1939-01-27 Prof. E.A. Milne "Inventing a Theory to fit the Facts" OCR 237 60 201 1939-02-13 Dr. H.J. Bhabha "The Theory of Cosmic Ray Showers" OCR 240 202 1939-02-23 Adams Mr. E. Cunningham Discussion SJC 242 202a 1939-02-25 d TCNSS Dinner 243 35 203 1939-03-23 Mr. A.H. Stone "Squaring the Square" OCR 244 204 1939-04-24 Dr. M.S. Bartlett "Mathematics and Human Genetics" OCR 248 205 1939-05-15 e Dr. A.F. Devonshire "Mathematics and Molecules" OCR 250 206 1939-10-16 Prof. A.S. Eddington "Why is the Universe Mathematical?" OCR 253 207 1939-10-30 Dr. A.D. Thackeray "The Structure of the Galaxy" OCR 256 208 1939-11-27 e Dr. B. Swirles "Precession" OCR 258 209 1940-02-05 Mr. M.H.A. Newman "The Ham Sandwich Theorem" OCR 262 210 1940-02-12 MRSTC Mr. F.J. Anscombe "What Statistics is About" GP1 265 211 1940-02-19 Adams Prof. L. Wittgenstein "The Descent of Mathematics" OCR 267 211a 1940-02-24 d TCNSS Dinner OCR 269 212 1940-03-04 Dr. R. Stoneley "Earthquake Waves" OCR 270 213 1940-04-29 Mr. A.S. Besicovitch "Normal Sequences of Numbers" OCR 272 214 1940-05-13 MRSTC Mr. I.J. Good "Infinite Regressions" 277 215 1940-10-21 e Mr. W.T. Tutte "Bosh(x)" OCR 282 216 1940-11-04 Mr. P. Hall "Something about Galois" OCR 285 217 1940-11-13 NP Prof. P.A.M. Dirac "The Interior of an Electron" OCR 288 218 1940-12-02 e NP Prof. G.H. Hardy "Ramanujan" OCR 291 219 1941-02-03 Mr. H. Jeffreys "Mathematics as a Substitute for Thought" OCR 296 220 1941-02-17 Mr. W.R. Dean "The Biharmonic Equation" OCR 298 221 1941-02-27 Adams Prof. W.V.D. Hodge "Unexplored Fields in Geometry" SJC 300 222 1941-03-10 Dr. J.O. Irwin "Statistical Studies of the Personal Factor in Accidents" OCR 302 222a 1941-03-12 v Dr. J.O. Irwin Visit to Psychological Laboratory 304 223 1941-04-28 Mr. A.H. Wilson "The History of the Elementary Physical Particles, 1926-40" OCR 309 224 1941-05-12 Dr. J.A. Todd "Morley's Trisection Theorem" OCR 312 225 1941-10-20 NP Prof. J.E. Littlewood "Some Applications of Analysis" OCR 318 226 1941-11-03 NP Mr. A.E. Ingham "Conjecture and Proof in the Theory of Numbers" CAI 322 227 1941-11-17 NP Prof. A.S. Eddington "The Size of the Universe" OCR 325 228 1941-11-27 NP Mr. M.H.A. Newman "Axiomatics" CHR 330 VOLUME IV --------- mmmxx yyyy-mm-dd fff joint speaker title venue ppp aud 229 1942-01-28 NP Dr. D. Shoenberg "Small Particles at Low Temperatures" OCR 14 230 1942-02-09 NP Dr. J.A. Todd "The Elements of Euclid" CAI 16 231 1942-02-25 NP Prof. Sir E.V. Appleton "Some Unsolved Radio Problems" CAI 18 232 1942-03-09 NP Mr. A.S. Besicovitch "Mean Values of Functions" OCR 20 (the Society did not meet during Easter 1942) 233 1942-10-19 be Business Meeting GP3 26 234 1942-10-26 NP Dr. J.C. Burkill "The Area of a Surface" OCR 28 235 1942-11-09 NP Mr. L.A. Pars "The Differential Equations of Dynamics" OCR 31 236 1942-11-23 NP Dr. C.A.B. Smith "Growing Fish from Seed" EMM 33 237 1943-02-22 NP Mr. W.T. Tutte "Squaring the Square" EMM 35 (the Society did not meet during Easter 1943) 238 1943-10-28 e Mr. F. Ursell "Prime Numbers" OCR 41 239 1943-11-06 Mr. A.S. Besicovitch "Monotonic Functions" LR5 44 240 1943-11-11 Mr. N. Aronszain (title not recorded) LR5 45 241 1943-11-18 Prof. A.S. Eddington "From Nucleus to Nebula" LR5 47 242 1943-11-25 Prof. G.H. Hardy "The Theorem of the Arithmetic and Geometric Means" LR5 49 243 1943-12-02 e Dr. M.L. Cartwright "Forty days or forty years" OCR 51 244 1944-01-20 Mr. J. Wisdom "Proof" LR5 57 245 1944-01-27 Prof. J.E. Littlewood "Some Applications of Mathematical Analysis" LR5 59 246 1944-02-10 Dr. F.C. Powell "Atomic Theory" LR5 61 247 1944-03-02 Miss S.M. Edmonds "Fourier Series" OCR 63 248 1944-03-09 Mr. A.E. Ingham "Theory of Numbers" OCR 65 249 1944-05-18 e Business Meeting GP3 69 250 1944-06-01 d Dinner Hall 71 24 251 1944-11-02 Prof. C.D. Broad "Dunne's Theory of Time" OCR 77 252 1944-11-09 Hon. B. Russell "Is Mathematics Superstitious?" OCR 79 253 1944-11-16 Mrs. B. Jeffreys "Atomic Wave Functions" OCR 82 254 1944-11-23 Dr. J.C. Burkill "Sixth Form Mathematics" OCR 84 255 1945-02-01 Prof. Sir G.I. Taylor "Explosives" OCR 89 256 1945-02-08 Mr. A.H. Wilson "Theory of Elementary Physical Particles" LR5 91 257 1945-02-15 Mr. R.B. Braithwaite "Gödel's Theorem" LR5 94 258 1945-03-01 Prof. W.V.D. Hodge "Invariant Matrices" OCR 95 259 1945-03-08 Mr. S.W.P. Steen "Random Sequences" LR5 97 260 1945-04-26 Prof. J.E. Littlewood "Large Numbers" LR5 103 261 1945-05-10 Dr. J.A. Todd "The Elements of Euclid" LR5 105 262 1945-05-18 e Business Meeting GN6 107 263 1945-10-18 Col. Sir G.P. Lenox-Conyngham "The Figure of the Earth and Deflections of the Plumb-Line" OCR 111 264 1945-11-01 Mr. A.S. Besicovitch "Area of Surfaces" OCR 114 265 1945-11-15 Mrs. O.H.T. Rishbeth "String Figures" OCR 117 266 1945-11-22 Mr. W.R. Dean "Sir Isaac Newton" OCR 119 267 1945-11-29 e Dr. D. Shoenberg "Superconductivity" LR5 121 268 1946-01-31 Mr. S. Wylie "The Ham Sandwich Theorem" OCR 127 269 1946-02-14 Mr. W.T. Tutte "Hamilton's Unicursal Problem" OCR 131 270 1946-02-28 Mr. M.H.L. Pryce "Atomic Energy" OCR 134 271 1946-03-07 Dr. M.S. Bartlett "The Mathematics of Population Changes" OCR 137 272 1946-05-02 Mr. R.V. Baron "Symbols" OCR 143 273 1946-05-13 e Mr. A.H. Stone "Regular Polygons" OCR 146 274 1946-10-17 Prof. J.E. Littlewood "Mathematical Study and Research" OCR 154 275 1946-10-31 Dr. W.A.H. Rushton "Recurring Decimals" OCR 156 276 1946-11-14 Mr. H.A. Thurston "Lattices" GP3 158 277 1946-11-28 e Dr. H.A. Brück "Star Counts and the Structure of the Galaxy" OCR 160 278 1947-01-27 Mr. P. Hall "Galois and his Work" OCR 166 279 1947-02-10 Mr. P.M. Cohn "Divergent Series" NA4 168 280 1947-02-24 Adams Dr. F. Smithies "The Notion of Rigour in Mathematics" SJC 169 281 1947-05-05 Mr. N. Kemmer "The Role of Hyper-Complex Numbers in Relativistic Mechanics" JP 174 282 1947-05-19 Dr. A.J. Ward "Partially Ordered Sets" JP 176 283 1947-06-07 e Business Meeting 177 284 1947-10-27 Mr. A.S. Besicovitch "Sets of Distances between points on a curve" LR5 180 285 1947-11-10 Dr. C.A.B. Smith "What Function has a Function of a Function?" JP 181 286 1947-11-24 Dr. H.G. Booker "Propagation of Radio Waves in the Troposphere" JP 182 287 1948-01-19 Prof. A.E. Taylor "A Geometric Theorem" JP 185 288 1948-02-02 Mr. S. Wylie "Knots" JP 186 289 1948-05-17 Dr. H. Bondi "Cosmology" JP 192 290 1948-10-18 Dr. J.A. Todd "Invariants" JP 196 291 1948-11-01 Mr. R.B. Braithwaite "The Logic of Probability" JP 198 292 1948-11-08 Prof. J.E. Littlewood "Newton and the Attraction of a Sphere" JP 200 293 1948-11-22 Mr. P.M. Cohn "What is Geometry, or, the Erlange Programm" JP 202 294 1949-01-17 Prof. W.V.D. Hodge "Some Problems in Enumerative Geometry" JP 206 295 1949-01-31 Prof. O.R. Frisch "Probability and Chain Reactions" JP 208 296 1949-02-21 Discussion on Geometry JP 210 297 1949-04-25 Mr. E.H. Sondheimer "An Integral Equation in Mathematical Physics" JP 214 297a 1949-06-08 d Dinner 298 1949-10-17 Dr. F. Smithies "Abstract Analysis" JP 220 299 1949-11-07 Mr. D.V. Lindley "How to Play Games" JP 223 300 1949-11-21 Mr. L. Mestel "The White Dwarfs" JP 225 301 1950-01-23 Mr. E.S. Barnes "Minkowski's Geometry of Numbers" 228 302 1950-02-06 Mr. J. Leech "Geometry (Mod 2)" JP 231 303 1950-02-13 Mr. D.G. Ashwell "Relaxation Methods" 233 304 1950-02-27 Dr. M.V. Wilkes "Electronic Calculating Machines" JP 235 305 1950-05-01 Prof. J.E. Littlewood "More Odds and Ends" 240 306 1950-10-23 Prof. A.S. Besicovitch "The Sequence of Squares" 244 307 1950-11-06 Mr. N. Kemmer "Recent Developments in Quantum Field Theory" 246 308 1950-11-20 e Dr. M.L. Cartwright "Rotation Numbers" 249 309 1951-01-15 Mr. F. Ursell "Infinite Determinants" JP 254 VOLUME V -------- mmmxx yyyy-mm-dd fff joint speaker title venue ppp aud 310 1951-01-29 Prof. C.D. Broad "Kant's Arguments from the Existence of Incongruent Counterparts" JP 17 311 1951-02-12 Mr. E.J. Watson "The Splash of a Jet" JP 21 312 1951-02-26 Dr. D.W. Babbage "Covariants of Binary Forms" JP 23 313 1951-04-30 be Prof. O.R. Frisch "The Four Colour Problem" JP 25 314 1951-10-15 Dr. H. Bondi "The Formation of Clouds" JP 29 315 1951-10-29 e Mr. E.S. Barnes "The Euclidean Algorithm" JP 33 316 1951-11-12 Dr. F. Smithies "Continuous Geometry" JP 35 317 1951-11-26 Dr. W.L. Edge "Felix Klein" LR3 37 318 1952-01-28 Mr. F.P. White "Some Geometrical Maxima and Minima" JP 39 319 1952-02-11 Mr. P. Hall "The Life and Work of Galois" JP 41 320 1952-02-25 Mr. S. Wylie "The Plaster Theorem" JP 43 321 1952-04-28 Prof. L.J. Mordell "Ramanujan, the Indian Mathematician" JP 47 321a 1952-04-28 be Business Meeting JP 48 322 1952-05-02 b Business Meeting HY1 50 323 1952-10-13 Mr. F.J. Anscombe "Codes" JP 53 324 1952-10-27 Prof. J.E. Littlewood "Odds and Ends" JP 56 325 1952-11-10 Dr. D.R. Taunt "Algebras at your Service" JP 59 325a 1952-11-20 b Business Meeting JP 61 326 1952-11-24 Dr. G.K. Batchelor "Cavitation in Water" JP 62 326a 1952-11-24 b Business Meeting JP 65 11 327 1953-01-26 Prof. J. Wisdom "The Accidental and the Inevitable" 67 327a 1953-01-26 b Business Meeting 70 21 328 1953-02-16 Prof. D.R. Hartree "Railway Signal Interlocking" 72 329 1953-03-02 Prof. W.V.D. Hodge "Moving Axes" 74 329a 1953-03-04 d Dinner 330 1953-04-27 Sir C.G. Darwin "The Way Discoveries are Made" 75 330a 1953-04-27 be Business Meeting 77 330b 1953-08-12 c Adams Cricket Match (victorious) OF 78 331 1953-10-13 Prof. Sir G.I. Taylor "How Animals Swim" 79 332 1953-11-02 Dr. H.G. Eggleston "A Problem of L. Euler" 81 333 1953-11-16 e Dr. K.V. Roberts "The Scattering of Waves by a Sphere" 83 334 1954-01-25 Prof. R.B. Braithwaite "The Theory of Games and its application to Inductive Logic" 86 335 1954-02-14 Prof. O.R. Frisch "The Map-Colouring Problem" 87 336 1954-04-26 be Prof. F.J.M. Stratton "Expanding Stellar Shells" 89 337 1954-10-11 Prof. N.F. Mott "Mathematics and Physics" LR1 92 338 1954-10-25 Dr. P.J. Hilton "The Nature of Mathematics" JP 94 339 1954-11-15 Dr. I. Proudman "Aerodynamic Noise" JP 96 339a 1954-11-15 be Business Meeting JP 98 340 1955-01-24 Prof. J. Wisdom "Metaphysics" JP 100 341 1955-02-14 v Visit to the Mathematical Laboratory 102 341a 1955-03-07 d Annual Dinner 342 1955-04-25 be Dr. R.H. Thouless "Extrasensory Perception" 103 343 1955-10-20 Prof. A.S. Besicovitch "On the Rearrangement of Terms of a Conditionally Convergent Series" LR1 106 344 1955-10-24 Dr. F.G. Friedlander "A Mathematical Exercise on a Violin String" JP 108 345 1955-11-14 be Dr. J.A. Todd "e˛=0" JP 110 346 1956-01-23 Dr. J.F. Thomson "The Logical Paradoxes" JP 113 346a 1956-01-23 b Business Meeting JP 114 347 1956-02-13 Dr. E.R. Lapwood "The Torsion Problem" JP 115 348 1956-04-23 Dr. R.H. Macmillan "Automatic Control" JP 116 348a 1956-04-23 be Business Meeting JP 117 349 1956-10-15 Dr. E.C. Zeeman "Knotting a Sphere in five dimensions" LR1 119 80+ 350 1956-10-29 Dr. W.L. Edge "Conics in a Finite Plane" JP 122 351 1956-11-16 b Mr. D.V. Lindley "The Theory of Games" JP 123 352 1957-01-21 Mr. S.W.P. Steen "Degrees of Insolvability" JP 125 353 1957-02-18 Dr. H.P.F. Swinnerton-Dyer "Automatic Computing" JP 126 354 1957-05-06 Dr. G.K. Batchelor "Non-linearity in Hydrodynamics" JP 128 354a 1957-05-06 be Annual General Meeting JP 129 355 1957-10-14 Dr. D.W.S. Sciama "The Irreversibility of Time" LR2 137 356 1957-11-04 b Dr. M.F. Atiyah "Omar Khayyam: Poet & Mathematician" JP 138 357 1958-01-27 Mr. S. Wylie "Orientable Manifolds" JP 141 358 1958-02-24 Dr. I. Proudman "Rotating Fluids" JP 143 359 1958-05-05 Dr. J.C.P. Miller "Recurring Decimals" JP 145 359a 1958-05-06 be Annual General Meeting 147 359b 1958-05-29 c Adams Cricket Match (abandoned) SJC 146 360 1958-10-20 Prof. H. Davenport "The Nature of Mathematics" LR2 150 361 1958-11-05 Dr. G.K. Batchelor "Magnetohydrodynamics" JP 153 362 1958-11-17 Prof. O.R. Frisch "The Four Colour Problem" JP 155 363 1959-01-19 Dr. L. Mestel "Star Building" JP 157 364 1959-02-23 Dr. J.F. Adams "No More Division Algebras?" JP 159 364a 1959-02-23 be Business Meeting JP 161 365 1959-05-04 Dr. J.W.S. Cassels "Pi(e) in the Sky" JP 163 365a 1959-05-04 b Annual General Meeting JP 165 365b 1959-06-05 c Adams Cricket Match (victorious) OF 167 366 1959-10-19 Prof. R.B. Braithwaite "How, in theory, to play games" LR2 168 367 1959-11-02 Dr. D.R. Taunt "Is Mathematics Reasonable?" JP 171 368 1959-11-16 Dr. B.J. Birch "Diophantine Equations" JP 178 369 1960-01-25 Dr. P.G. Saffman "Superaerodynamics" JP 180 370 1960-02-22 Prof. C.D. Broad "Charge, Continuity and Discontinuity" JP 182 370a 1960-02-22 be Business Meeting JP 184 371 1960-05-02 Dr. H.P.F. Swinnerton-Dyer "Machines that Think?" JP 187 371a 1960-05-02 b Annual General Meeting JP 189 371b 1960-06-03 c Adams Cricket Match (victorious) SJC 191 VOLUME VI --------- mmmxx yyyy-mm-dd fff joint speaker title venue ppp aud 372 1960-10-18 Prof. Sir G.I. Taylor "Thin Sheets of Fluid" LR2 19 373 1960-10-31 Dr. M.F. Atiyah "A Survey of Modern Geometry" JP 21 374 1960-11-14 Dr. J.C. Polkinghorne "Elementary Particles" JP 22 375 1961-01-23 Dr. F.G. Friedlander "Partial Differential Equations" GS2 24 376 1961-02-20 Dr. F. Smithies "Rigour in Mathematics" GS2 25 376a 1961-02-20 be Business Meeting GS2 27 377 1961-05-01 Dr. J.A. Todd "Pascal's Theorem" JP 30 377a 1961-05-01 b Annual General Meeting JP 32 377b 1961-06-01 b Business Meeting GI2 34 377c 1961-06-02 c Adams Cricket Match (victorious) SJC 35 378 1961-10-16 Prof. N.F. Mott "Unsolved Problems in Solid State Physics" JP 37 379 1961-10-30 Dr. J.C.P. Miller "Polyhedra" JP 39 380 1961-11-13 Dr. G.K. Batchelor "How to Pinch Plasmas" JP 41 381 1962-01-22 Dr. J.W.S. Cassels "Factorisation of Polynomials" JP 42 382 1962-02-19 Dr. P.C. Clemmow "Expanding Waves" JP 43 382a 1962-02-19 be Business Meeting JP 44 383 1962-05-07 Dr. B.J. Birch "Putting Chairs on Mountains" JP 47 383a 1962-05-07 b Annual General Meeting JP 48 383b 1962-06-07 c Adams Cricket Match (defeated) SJC 50 384 1962-10-29 Dr. J.H. Williamson "Asymptotics" JP 52 385 1962-11-12 Dr. L. Mestel "The Rotation of the Galaxy" JP 53 386 1962-11-29 (no speaker present) JP 54 387 1963-02-18 Dr. H.P.F. Swinnerton-Dyer "The Theory of Games" JP 54 387a 1963-02-18 be Business Meeting JP 55 388 1963-05-06 Dr. A.R.G. Owen "Quadratic Forms in Population Theory" JP 56 388a 1963-05-06 b Annual General Meeting JP 58 388b 1963-05-18 c Adams Cricket Match (victorious) SJC 60 389 1963-10-14 Prof. H. Davenport "Some recent developments in the Theory of Numbers" LR1 61 390 1963-10-28 Dr. S.G. Hooker "The Future of Aerospace in Civil and Military Fields" JP 62 391 1963-11-11 Dr. H.K. Moffatt "The Dynamo Problem" JP 65 392 1964-01-20 Mr. A.E. Ingham "Prime Numbers" JP 66 393 1964-02-17 e Mr. J.F.C. Kingman "Why a Family Tree Dies" JP 67 394 1964-05-04 Dr. J. Goldstone "Quantum Logic" JP 68 394a 1964-05-04 b Annual General Meeting JP 69 395 1964-10-12 Prof. W.V.D. Hodge "Mathematical Studies in some British and American Universities" LR1 71 60 396 1964-10-26 Dr. M.V. Wilkes "Modern Developments in Digital Computing" JP 75 50 397 1964-11-09 Dr. D.R. Taunt "Marriage and other Combinatorial Problems" JP 79 398 1965-01-18 Prof. D.G. Kendall "How to spread a rumour" JP 80 399 1965-02-15 e Dr. F.P. Bretherton "The Wind Bloweth..." JP 82 400 1965-05-03 Dr. F. Smithies "Approximation to Continuous Functions" LR1 84 400a 1965-05-03 b Annual General Meeting LR1 86 401 1965-10-11 Dr. J.C. Polkinghorne "Elementary Particles" LR1 89 100 402 1965-10-25 Dr. D.W.S. Sciama "Quasi-Stellar Radio Sources" JP 90 80 403 1965-11-08 b Prof. G.K. Batchelor "Bubbles and Clouds" JP 92 30 404 1966-01-17 Dr. J.P. Dougherty "Counting Electrons by Radar" JP 94 405 1966-02-14 e Dr. J.W.S. Cassels "The Third Man" JP 96 406 1966-05-02 Dr. E.A. Maxwell "We Have Erred and Strayed..." JP 98 406a 1966-05-02 b Annual General Meeting JP 100 407 1966-10-10 Dr. H.P.F. Swinnerton-Dyer "How to Play Games" JP 103 408 1966-10-24 Dr. M.L. Cartwright "Should Mathematics be Modernised?" JP 104 40 409 1966-11-07 b Dr. J.E. Roseblade "Dancing Partners" JP 105 40 410 1967-01-23 Dr. D.T. Whiteside "Isaac Newton: Undergraduate Mathematician" JP 111 36 411 1967-02-20 Dr. E.R. Lapwood "The Age of the Earth" JP 113 30 411a 1967-02-20 be Business Meeting JP 115 10 412 1967-05-01 Dr. V.E. Cosslett "Monte-Carlo methods in Electron Scattering" JP 118 24 412a 1967-05-01 be Annual General Meeting JP 120 413 1967-10-16 Dr. H.K. Moffatt "The Dynamo Problem" JP 124 414 1967-10-30 Dr. H.T. Croft "On a Metrical Furry Ball Problem" JP 129 30 415 1968-01-13 Dr. J.H. Conway "Miserable Games" JP 130 416 1968-01-22 Dr. D. Barden "On some Infinite-Dimensional Surfaces" JP 132 30 417 1968-02-19 be Mr. W.G. Kellaway "What is Happening to School Geometry?" JP 137 418 1968-04-29 Dr. J. Goldstone "i is Real" JP 140 30 418a 1968-04-29 b Annual General Meeting JP 142 418b 1968-06-06 c Adams Cricket Match (victorious) 146 419 1968-10-14 b Dr. P.V. Landshoff "Quarks and other particles" LR 147 90 420 1968-10-28 b Dr. D.W.S. Sciama "The Structure of the Universe" LR 156 120 421 1968-11-11 Dr. D. Williams "Getting Positively Nowhere Infinitely Past" LR 160 80 422 1969-01-20 Prof. J.C. Polkinghorne "Oliver Heaviside" LR1 165 423 1969-02-17 e Dr. D.J.H. Garling "Spaces of Continuous Dimension" JP 168 40 424 1969-04-28 Dr. J.T. Knight an anonymous subject JP 173 424a 1969-04-28 b Annual General Meeting JP 174 31 424b 1969-06-02 d Fiftieth Anniversary Dinner OK 175 425 1969-10-13 Dr. H.P.F. Swinnerton-Dyer "Decision Making and other games" LRT 176 90 426 1969-10-27 b Prof. A.B. Pippard "Real Electrons in Real metal" LRT 178 20 427 1969-11-10 Dr. G.A. Reid "Ultrafilters" LRT 181 VOLUME VII ---------- mmmxx yyyy-mm-dd fff joint speaker title venue ppp aud 428 1970-01-20 Dr. I.T. Drummond "Quantum Mechanics and Quantum non-mechanics" JP 21 429 1970-02-02 Dr. A.C. Duncan "Bones and Red Powder" JP 23 430 1970-02-16 Prof. M.J. Lighthill "How do Fishes Swim?" JP 25 430a 1970-02-16 be Business Meeting JP 26 431 1970-04-27 Dr. A. Rae "Minimal Conditions in Algebra" JP 28 431a 1970-04-27 b Annual General Meeting JP 29 432 1970-10-12 Dr. J.P. Dougherty "Two for the price of one" LRT 33 433 1970-10-26 Dr. J.H. Conway "From balls to codes in n-space" LRT 35 133 434 1970-11-09 Sir G.I. Taylor "Some interactions between mathematics and experiment" OCR 37 435 1971-01-18 Prof. J.W.S. Cassels "Cyclotomy" JP 39 436 1971-02-01 Dr. V. Heine "Exact Mathematics and Real Physics" JP 41 436a 1971-02-01 b Business Meeting JP 43 437 1971-02-15 e Dr. A.F. Beardon "Sets of nonintegral dimension" JP 44 438 1971-04-26 b Dr. A.W.F. Edwards "Gliding Sums" JP 46 439 1971-10-11 Dr. H.K. Moffatt "Knotted Vortex Lines - the clue to dynamo action" LRT 50 440 1971-10-25 Mr. A.J. Casson "Infinite Products and Topology" LRT 52 441 1971-11-08 b Prof. D.G. Kendall "Mathematical aids for the Medieval Historian" JP 56 442 1972-01-17 Dr. D.R. Taunt "Loops and other Groupoids" JP 60 443 1972-01-31 Dr. J.R. Willis "Some Integral Equations in Elasticity Theory" JP 63 444 1972-02-14 e Dr. C.R.F. Maunder "Wild Arcs and Dogbones" JP 66 444b 1972-03-02 e Business Meeting HO3 72 445 1972-04-24 Dr. F.G. Friedlander "Dirichlet's Problem & Dirichlet's Principle" JP 72 445a 1972-04-24 b Annual General Meeting JP 75 446 1972-10-09 Prof. H.P.F. Swinnerton-Dyer "Games of Pursuit and Evasion" LRT 79 447 1972-10-23 Dr. B. Bollobás "A Characterisation of the Circle and its connection with Entire Functions" JP 82 448 1972-11-06 Dr. G.F.R. Ellis "The Edges of Space-Time" JP 87 100 449 1973-01-22 Dr. P.M.E. Altham "Some Problems in Applied Statistics" JP 89 450 1973-02-05 Prof. Sir M.J. Lighthill "Ocean Science" JP 94 451 1973-02-19 Dr. J.E. Roseblade "A Theorem of Hall's" JP 101 451a 1973-02-19 e Business Meeting JP 107 452 1973-04-30 b Dr. N.O. Weiss "Stirring up Stars" JP 111 453 1973-10-15 Prof. J.W.S. Cassels "Eisenstein: the Man and his Work" LRT 117 454 1973-10-29 Dr. J.H. Conway "Dots and Boxes" LRT 122 455 1973-11-21 Dr. H. Osborn "Topics in High Energy Physics" JP 127 456 1974-01-21 Prof. P. Whittle "Optimal Stopping" JP 130 20 457 1974-02-04 Prof. Sir M. Ryle "The 5km Telescope" LRT 133 50 458 1974-02-18 e Dr. A.F. Beardon "Hyperbolic Tessellations" JP 137 458b 1974-03-11 e Business Meeting GI4 140 459 1974-04-29 Dr. J.P. Dougherty "World Energy Supplies and Fusion" JP 141 459a 1974-04-29 b Annual General Meeting JP 143 459b 1974-06-04 c Punt Race CAM 145 460 1974-10-14 Dr. F.G. Friedlander "Geometrical Optics and Partial Differential Equations" OCR 150 45 461 1974-10-28 b Dr. A.D. Barbour "Modelling Bilharzia" JP 153 461a 1974-11-13 d Prof. J.C. Polkinghorne Triennial Dinner OK 158 29 462 1974-11-25 b Dr. R.M. Needham "Protection of Data in Computers" JP 159 463 1975-01-20 b Dr. D.J.H. Garling "Its Probably True: Brownian Motion and Classical Analysis" JP 162 464 1975-02-03 b Dr. H.K. Moffatt "On the Maximum Load of Treacle that can be supported on a Rotating Ideal Knife" JP 166 465 1975-02-17 Mr. F.P. Kelly "Markov Population Processes" JP 171 466 1975-03-03 Dr. G.A. Reid "How to Park a Car" JP 174 466a 1975-03-03 e Business Meeting JP 176 467 1975-04-21 Dr. E.J. Hinch "Venus' Dashing Veil" JP 180 467a 1975-04-21 b Annual General Meeting JP 182 VOLUME VIII ----------- mmmxx yyyy-mm-dd fff joint speaker title venue ppp aud 468 1975-10-13 Dr. D.O. Gough "Sweet and Sour Fluid Dynamics" LRT 24 469 1975-10-27 Dr. A. Mees "Control Engineering" JP 26 470 1975-11-10 Prof. M.V. Wilkes "Finite Element Methods" JP 30 471 1975-11-24 f A/M&S Mr. N. Black (prop) "This House does not believe in the existence of Trinity College." (tied) OCR 34 Mr. H.J. Pearson (opp) 472 1976-01-19 Dr. J.C.R. Hunt "Applications of Simple Topology to Fluid Mechanics" JP 41 473 1976-02-02 b Prof. M.J. Rees "The Early Universe" JP 45 474 1976-02-16 Mr. D.J. Benson "Category Theory" JP 53 Mr. H.J. Pearson "Working for ICI Plastics Division" 475 1976-03-01 e Mr. H.J. Pearson "Funny Fluids" JP 64 476 1976-04-26 Prof. Sir H.P.F. Swinnerton-Dyer "The Three-Body Problem" JP 69 476a 1976-06-06 c Adams Punt Race CAM 70 477 1976-10-11 Prof. Sir M.J. Lighthill "Mathematics and the Weather" LRT 73 478 1976-10-25 Prof. J.W.S. Cassels "The Greatest Happiness of the Greatest Number" JP 77 478a 1976-10-25 b Business Meeting JP 81 479 1976-11-08 Dr. J. Goldstone "High-energy Particles and Massless Strings" JP 83 480 1976-11-11 f M&S Mr. D.E. Logan (prop) "Let them eat \pi" (tied) OCR 88 Mr. H.J. Pearson (opp) 481 1976-11-22 Dr. E.J. Hinch "Research Opportunities" LRT 94 Dr. D.P. Kennedy Mr. D.J. Goto 482 1977-01-17 Dr. J.K.M. Moody "String Processing and Computational Theory" OCR 98 483 1977-01-31 Dr. J.A. Hudson "Moonquakes" JP 101 484 1977-02-14 Dr. S.M. Edmonds "Wobbles" JP 106 485 1977-02-28 e Dr. D.P. Kennedy "Multi-armed Bandits" JP 111 486 1977-04-25 Prof. M.S. Longuet-Higgins "Clifford's Chain" JP 116 487 1977-10-10 Dr. T.W. Körner "Sod's Law in the Service of Mankind" LRT 121 100 488 1977-10-24 Prof. M.V. Wilkes "Early Computers in Cambridge" LRT 126 489 1977-11-07 Prof. J.F. Adams "Whatever happened to Geometry?" OCR 129 490 1978-01-30 Dr. B.J. Carr "Black Pinholes and the First Second of the Universe" DAMTP 134 491 1978-02-13 Prof. V. Heine "The Beauty of Exact Mathematics versus the Reality of Approximate Physics" LRT 139 492 1978-02-27 Dr. J.H. Conway "Sunflowers, Pineapples and Fibonacci Numbers" LRT 142 493 1978-03-13 e Prof. E. Cockayne "When Greed is not a Vice" OCR 150 23 494 1978-04-24 Prof. A. Needleman "The Shapes of a Spherical Balloon" JP 160 19 494a 1978-06-06 c Adams Cricket Match (victorious) OF 167 495 1978-10-09 Prof. Sir S. Edwards "The Topology of Chain Molecules" OCR 168 50 496 1978-10-23 Dr. A. Mees "Deterministic Chaos" JP 174 20 497 1978-11-06 Dr. R.M. Williams "Mathematics and Sexual Reproduction" JP 178 25 VOLUME IX --------- mmmxx yyyy-mm-dd fff joint speaker title venue ppp aud 498˝ 1978-11-20 Dr. B. Bollobás "Research Opportunities" OCR 16 Dr. M.R.E. Proctor Mr. J.R. Partington 499˝ 1979-01-29 Mrs. M. Batchelor "Supergeometry" OCR 18 500˝ 1979-02-12 Prof. A. Baker "A Diophantine Conjecture" OCR 22 501˝ 1979-02-26 Prof. S.I. Goldberg "The Distance-decreasing properties of a class of mappings" OCR 25 15 502˝ 1979-03-12 e Dr. B. Whiting "The anomalous propagation of VHF radiation in the troposphere" OCR 29 503˝ 1979-04-23 Mr. R.H. Lupton Recitation of three verses of Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark" GQ1 32 503˝a 1979-06-04 c Adams Cricket Match (defeated) OF 32 504˝ 1979-10-15 Prof. Sir H.P.F. Swinnerton-Dyer "Games of Pursuit and Evasion" OCR 33 60 505 1979-10-29 Dr. J.H. Stewart "The Cosmic Censor" LRT 38 50 506 1979-11-12 Dr. J.C. Taylor "Why is it that Gauge Invariance seems to be an important idea in Physics?" JP 45 55 507 1979-11-26 Dr. J.H. Conway "Big Groups" JP 51 71 508 1980-01-28 Dr. B. Bollobás "Some applications of combinatorics" JP 57 27 509 1980-02-25 Mr. A.J. Casson "Conjectures in Group Theory and Topology" JP 60 28 510 1980-03-12 e Mr. A.J. Baddeley "Infertility and other twisted topics" JP 67 17 511 1980-04-21 Dr. E.J. Hinch "Long slender drops" JP 73 18 512 1980-04-23 d Prof. M.F. Atiyah Dinner OK 83 24 512a 1980-06-01 c Adams Cricket Match (defeated) SJC 84 513 1980-10-13 Prof. D. Lynden-Bell "Isocirculationality" JP 85 29 514 1980-10-20 Dr. H. Osborn "Infinite Determinants" WPR 92 30 515 1980-10-27 Dr. D.B. Singmaster "Pythagorean Triangles from Plimpton 322 to the Present Day" LRT 97 56 516 1980-11-10 Prof. J.F. Adams "Local and Global Problems in Topology" LRT 104 27 517 1980-11-17 Dr. J. Rallison "Funny Fluids" JP 108 15 518 1980-11-24 Prof. P.M. Cohn "From codes to FIRs" OCR 111 24 519 1981-01-26 be Prof. H.K. Moffatt "Strange Attractors" LRT 118 21 520 1981-02-04 d Prof. J.F. Adams Dinner OK 122 20 521 1981-02-09 Dr. B. Thwaites "A Confoundedly Curious Conjecture" OCR 124 10 522 1981-02-23 Prof. G.K. Batchelor "Extraction of Oil from Underground" OCR 128 9 523 1981-03-09 Dr. C. Isenberg "Geometrical Properties and Shapes of Soapfilms and Soapbubbles" WPR 131 18 524 1981-04-27 Prof. D.G. Kendall "Mathematics in Medieval Theology" OCR 135 33 524a 1981-04-27 be Annual General Meeting OCR 139 8 524b 1981-06-10 c Adams Cricket Match (victorious) OF 148 VOLUME X -------- mmmxx yyyy-mm-dd fff joint speaker title venue ppp aud 525 1981-10-12 Mrs. M. Batchelor "How to be an impossible Mathematician" WPR 7 60 526 1981-10-26 Dr. J.R. Partington "Computer Poetry" JP 10 29 527 1981-11-02 Dr. M.R.E. Proctor "Bifurcations and the Transition to Turbulence" OCR 14 34 528 1981-11-16 Dr. B.J. Birch "Fermat's Last Theorem" OCR 20 48 529 1981-11-30 Prof. M.J.D. Powell "Automatic Smoothing and Error Correction for Tables of Function Values" LRT 25 14 530 1982-01-18 Dr. P.M.H. Wilson "Sylvester, his problem and related topics" OCR 30 17 531 1982-02-08 Prof. C.A.B. Smith "Mathematics is a good thing" OCR 36 16 532 1982-02-15 Rev. Dr. J.C. Polkinghorne "Mathematics, the Key to the Universe" OCR 42 25 533 1982-03-01 Prof. M.F. Atiyah "Hyperbolic Polyhedic" 48 14 534 1982-03-08 Dr. G.A. Reid "Groups of matrices" OCR 53 19 534a 1982-03-08 e Annual General Meeting OCR 58 535 1982-05-10 f Mr. J.C. Rickard (prop) "This house does not accept the Axiom of Choice" (defeated) LRT 60 19 Mr. P. Taylor (opp) Mr. S.J. Montgomery-Smith (opp) 535a 1982-06-14 c Adams Cricket Match (defeated) OF 63 536 1982-10-11 Dr. T.W. Körner "Code Makers and Code Breakers" OCR 65 46 537 1982-10-25 Dr. J.M.E. Hyland "Some Problems Hilbert Had" OCR 70 50 538 1982-11-08 Dr. J. Skilling "Entropy and Pictures" OCR 75 27 539 1982-11-22 Dr. P.T. Johnstone "The Ubiquity of Universality" LRT 78 19 540 1983-01-17 Dr. B. Bollobás "Minkowski's Conjecture" OCR 84 45 541 1983-01-31 Dr. H. Osborn "How to get to the stars relativistically" OCR 90 20 542 1983-02-14 Dr. W. Sutherland "Some relations between Topology and Algebra" OCR 96 18 543 1983-02-28 Prof. R. Penrose "Conic Cubes" LRT 102 25 543a 1983-02-28 e Annual General Meeting LRT 109 544 1983-05-02 Mr. J.R. Rickard "Fraction Games" OCR 111 19 544a 1983-05-02 be Business Meeting OCR 115 11 544b 1983-06-03 c Adams Cricket Match (defeated) 116 545 1983-10-10 Prof. J.H. Conway "Games" OCR 117 78 546 1983-10-24 Prof. H.K. Moffatt "Newton's Apple and Arnold's Cat" OCR 123 37 547 1983-11-07 Dr. G.J.O. Jameson "Marriage Problems" OCR 127 27 548 1983-11-21 Dr. A.R.D. Mathias "Reverse Mathematics" OCR 132 29 549 1984-01-23 Prof. J.C. Taylor "Things that Anticommute in Theoretical Physics" OCR 137 36 550 1984-02-06 Dr. G.R. Allan "The Greening of the Complex Plane" OCR 143 21 551 1984-02-20 Prof. E.C. Zeeman "Gears from the Greeks" OCR 146 31 552 1984-03-05 Mr. W. Boucher "An Energy Crisis in General Relativity" OCR 152 25 552a 1984-03-05 e Annual General Meeting OCR 156 553 1984-05-07 Prof. J.F. Adams "Real Numbers, Complex Numbers, Quaternions, Cayley Numbers and ...?" OCR 158 26 553a 1984-06-08 c Adams Cricket Match (victorious) SJC 162 554 1984-10-15 Dr. E.J. Hinch "Fluid Dynamics in Oil Recovery" OCR 163 28 555 1984-10-29 Dr. A.F. Beardon "Spheres, quaternions, and n dimensions" OCR 165 46 556 1984-11-12 Prof. D.W.S. Sciama "Cosmology, Galactic Astronomy, and Elementary Particle Physics" OCR 171 71 557 1984-11-26 Dr. P.M.H. Wilson "Bernouilli Numbers" OCR 176 38 558 1985-01-21 Dr. D.J.H. Garling "Whatever happened to the Infinitesimals in the Infinitesimal Calculus?" LRT 181 52 559 1985-02-04 Dr. M.T. Barlow "Sets of Fractional Dimension" OCR 184 29 560 1985-02-18 Prof. P.M. Cohn "How to swear in 3 languages without repeating yourself" OCR 189 42 561 1985-03-04 Mr. J.M. Edwards "Bifurcations and Period Doubling: A possible route to Turbulence" OCR 193 17 561a 1985-03-04 e Annual General Meeting OCR 199 11 562 1985-04-29 Dr. P. Goddard "Do we really live in twenty-six dimensions, or only ten" OCR 200 44 563 1985-10-14 Mr. P. Taylor "Some Things Which Are Not Mathematics" OCR 207 52 564 1985-10-28 Dr. R.G.E. Pinch "The Love of Large Numbers" OCR 214 46 565 1985-11-11 Dr. J. Skilling "Monkeys & Kangaroos" OCR 222 27 566 1985-11-25 Prof. D. Williams "On the Toss of a Coin" OCR 226 17 567 1986-02-03 Dr. H.T. Croft "How to cover a Sphere with Congruent Great Circle Arcs" OCR 234 17 568 1986-02-17 Dr. J.C.R. Hunt "Applied Maths in an Industrial Society" 236 12 569 1986-02-24 Dr. N. Inglis "How to win a map colouring game without humiliating your opponent" JP 240 20 570a 1986-03-03 e Annual General Meeting OCR 246 570 1986-03-03 Dr. B. Bollobás "The Littlewood-Offord Problem" OCR 246 37 571 1986-04-28 Prof. Sir H. Bondi "Complexity in Science" OCR 254 21 571a 1986-06-06 c Adams Cricket Match (defeated) SJC 254 572 1986-10-13 Dr. T.W. Körner "What Gauss Missed: A Bigger Slice of Pi" OCR 257 46 573 1986-10-27 Dr. L.C.G. Rogers "Constructing a Continuous Strictly Increasing Function with Zero Derivative Almost Everywhere" OCR 264 37 574 1986-11-10 Dr. J.R. Partington "Mathematical Puzzles in Fantasy Games" OCR 268 49 575 1986-11-24 Prof. P. Whittle "Random Bonding & Colouring in Graphs: the beginnings of a selforganising system" OCR 272 29 576 1987-01-19 Prof. J.F. Adams "Topology: Whis is Elementary isn't Obvious and What is Obvious isn't Elementary" LRT 275 39 VOLUME XI --------- mmmxx yyyy-mm-dd fff joint speaker title venue ppp aud 577 1987-02-02 Mr. J.M. Edwards "Sunspots, Flux Tubes and Solar Magnetism" JP 5 21 578 1987-02-16 Dr. P. Goddard "A Theory of Everything?" LRT 11 27 579 1987-03-02 Mr. I.B. Leader "Infinite Games" JP 14 33 579a 1987-03-02 be Annual General Meeting JP 19 580 1987-03-16 Dr. P.T. Johnstone "Transfinite Iterations and How to Avoid Them" OCR 21 33 581 1987-03-23 t Dr. B. Bollobás "Ramanujan" OCR 24 51 582 1987-10-19 e Dr. M.T. Barlow "Random Versions of Conway's "Life"" OCR 29 47 583 1987-10-26 Dr. A.J. Mestel "The Connection (?) between Chess and Mathematics" OCR 34 61 584 1987-11-09 Dr. R.G.E. Pinch "A "Proof" of Fermat's Last Theorem" OCR 37 56 585 1988-01-25 Dr. P.M.E. Altham "What a Statistician Actually Does" OCR 41 23 586 1988-02-08 Mr. C.D. Wright "A Generalisation of the Chromatic Polynomial" 43 32 587 1988-02-15 Prof. J.H. Coates "Congruent Numbers" OCR 47 25 588 1988-02-22 Dr. G.R. Allan "Analysts and Set Theory: A Case History" OCR 51 29 589 1988-02-29 r Mornington Crescent Championship JP 53 25 590a 1988-03-07 e Annual General Meeting OCR 54 590 1988-03-07 Mr. M.J. Richards "Pierre de Fermat (1601-65)" OCR 55 25 591 1988-05-09 Dr. J.R. Norris "Analysis in Path Space" OCR 58 17 592 1988-05-16 Dr. A.R.D. Mathias "Geometry versus Arithmetic" OCR 62 21 592a 1988-06-13 c Adams Cricket Match (victorious) SJC 67 593 1988-10-24 Dr. G. Brightwell "Tournaments - and how to win them" OCR 68 38 594 1988-11-07 Dr. M.T. Barlow "Diffusion-limited Aggregation" OCR 72 19 595 1988-11-14 Dr. C.J. Read "My Best Result - From a Mathematical and a Christian Perspective" OCR 77 26 596 1988-11-21 Dr. J.M.E. Hyland "Games Logic" OCR 82 53 597 1988-12-05 Dr. M.R.E. Proctor "Patterns in Convection" OCR 86 16 598 1989-01-23 Dr. A.C. Norman "Mechanizing the Mathematician" OCR 91 33 599 1989-02-06 Dr. P.M.H. Wilson "Tips for Elliptical Billiards" OCR 95 33 600 1989-02-20 Prof. J.W.S. Cassels "Kummer's Quartic Surface" OCR 100 30 601 1989-03-11 d Prof. Sir H.P.F. Swinnerton-Dyer Seventieth Anniversary Dinner OK 104 41 602 1989-03-13 Mr. I.B. Leader "Ramsey Theory" OCR 107 31 602a 1989-03-13 e Annual General Meeting OCR 112 603 1989-05-08 Dr. L.C.G. Rogers "How Second Best is as Good as Best" OCR 113 22 604 1989-05-15 Dr. S.T.C. Siklos "Riemann Zeta Functions" OCR 116 15 605 1989-05-22 Dr. C.T. Sparrow "Strange Attractors" OCR 120 19 605a 1989-05-29 c Cricket Match (defeated) OF 124 606 1989-10-30 Prof. C.A.B. Smith "Squaring the Square" JP 125 34 607 1989-11-06 e Prof. A. Baker "The a, b, c conjecture" LRT 129 13 608 1989-11-27 Prof. P. Whittle "Neural Nets - Overexposed or Overdue?" JP 134 27 609 1990-01-29 Prof. J.G. Thompson "Finite Projective Planes" OCR 138 18 610 1990-02-12 Mr. W.T. Gowers "Dvovetsky's Theorem" OCR 141 10 611 1990-02-24 d Annual Dinner PSR 145 23 612 1990-02-26 Prof. C.T.C. Wall "Roots and Reflections" OCR 147 20 613 1990-03-12 Dr. P. Taylor "Linear Logic" OCR 152 20 613a 1990-03-12 be Annual General Meeting OCR 155 614 1990-05-07 Dr. J.R. Partington "The Theorem that Time Forgot" OCR 156 23 615 1990-11-19 Dr. E.J. Hinch "Fractal Aggregation by Sedimentation" JP 163 11 616 1990-12-03 Dr. R.G.E. Pinch "The First Billion Digits of \pi" OCR 168 30 617 1991-01-21 Dr. A.J. Macfarlane "Discrete Dynamical Systems - Life in One Dimension" OCR 174 12 618 1991-01-29 o Mr. M. St.J. Owen (author) "Teeko: An Opera in One Act" OCR 181 Mr. A.W. Sheppard (producer) 619 1991-02-18 Dr. A.F. Beardon "Jigsaws, Circles and Spirals" OCR 184 17 620 1991-03-04 Mr. M. St.J. Owen "How to Tune a Piano" LRT 191 20 621 1991-04-27 d Sir M.F. Atiyah Half Gross Feast PSR 199 20 622 1991-05-06 Dr. P.F. Linden "How to design a green Building" LRT 201 10 622a 1991-??-?? be Annual General Meeting 205 623 1991-05-13 e Prof. G.B. Segal "Geometry and Particle Physics" OCR 206 28 624 1991-05-20 Prof. Sir H. Bondi "Theory of Gravitation" OCR 209 21 625 1991-10-21 Dr. T.W. Körner "Monte Carlo Periodograms" OCR 212 14 626 1991-11-04 Dr. J.G. Thompson "The monster as a Galois group" JP 217 21 627 1992-01-20 Dr. I.B. Leader "Vector Space Marriages" OCR 220 19 628 1992-02-03 Mr. A.W. Sheppard "Don't worry if you can't prove Stoke's theorem" OCR 223 14 629 1992-02-17 Prof. J.W.S. Cassels "Computer Aided Serendipity" OCR 225 13 630 1992-03-02 d Dr. S. Gull Annual Dinner PSR 227 631 1992-04-27 Dr. R.R. Horgan "Random Walks in Physics" LRT 230 8 631a 1992-??-?? e Annual General Meeting 232 632 1992-05-11 Prof. B.D. Josephson "What's wrong with reductionism" OCR 233 18 (details of unminuted cricket matches from 1993 to 2002 provided by Robin Bhattacharyya) 633 1992-10-12 e Dr. R.G.E. Pinch "Primes and Pseudoprimes" OCR 237 25 634 1992-10-26 Dr. B. Bollobás "The Fall of Some Famous Conjectures in Elementary Geometry" OCR 242 45 635 1992-11-09 Prof. H.K. Moffatt "The Energy of Knots" LRT 246 14 636 1992-11-23 Dr. R.M. Williams "Building Blocks of Space & Time" OCR 250 19 637 1993-01-18 Mr. M.A. Wainwright "Lambda Calculus" OCR 254 13 638 1993-02-01 Dr. W.B.R. Lickorish "Knots and Polynomials" OCR 258 22 639 1993-03-08 Prof. J.C. Taylor "Temperature and the Imaginary Time Cycle" OCR 263 639a 1993-??-?? c Adams Cricket Match (rained off) OF --- (details of unminuted meetings in 1993-1994 provided by Robin Bhattacharyya) 640 1993-10-11 Dr. I.B. Leader "Derived Sets" OCR 264 28 641 1993-10-25 Mr. K.M. Buzzard "A Proof That You Can't Prove Everything" OCR 272 40 641a 1993-11-01 Mr. M.A. Wainwright (ten minute substitute talk on fallacies; scheduled speaker absent) OCR --- 23 642 1993-11-08 Dr. A.C. Norman "How Fast Can I Do Sums Using Big Numbers, And Why?" OCR --- 27 643 1993-11-22 Dr. W.T. Gowers "Using the Continuum Hypothesis to Solve a Problem in Plane Geometry" WLT --- 25 644 1994-01-17 Dr. A.F. Beardon "Tessellating and Iterating in Curved Space" OCR --- 20 645 1994-01-31 Dr. J.M.E. Hyland "Sequential Computation" WLT --- 24 646 1994-02-14 Dr. P.T. Johnstone "Five Into Six Goes Twice" OCR --- 20 647 1994-02-28 Dr. M.J. Perry "How Black Is A Black Hole?" OCR --- 19 648 1994-03-07 Dr. K.N.V. Kartha "The Vedic Identity of Ramanujan's Identities" OCR --- 27 648a 1994-04-25 e Annual General Meeting OCR --- 649 1994-04-30 d Dr. I.B. Leader Annual Dinner PSR --- 12 649a 1994-06-16 c Adams Cricket Match (defeated) SJC --- 650 1994-10-10 Mr. K. Buecker "p-adic numbers" OCR 306 39 651 1994-10-24 Dr. P.M.H. Wilson "Euler nos & Arrangements of lines in the Plane" OCR 308 23 652 1994-11-07 Dr. H. Osborn "Quantum Tunnelling" OCR 311 21 653 1994-11-21 Dr. A.D. Gardiner "Problems, Theories & Applications" OCR 313 32 654 1995-01-23 Dr. C.J. Read (about making rigorous some applied mathematics used in quantum field theory?) OCR --- 655 unminuted 656 1995-03-06 Prof. J.H. Coates "Elliptic Curves" --- 656a 1995-06-23 c Adams Cricket Match (defeated) OF --- 657 1995-10-09 Dr. T.W. Körner "How to Hunt Submarines" OCR 316 60 658 1995-10-23 Dr. S.P. Bursill-Hall "The Dangers of Engineers doing Maths" OCR 322 72 659 1995-11-06 Dr. J. Robinson "What's wrong with fluid dynamics" OCR 326 36 660 1995-11-20 Dr. S.P. Norton "Everything's a Game" OCR 326 36 661 1996-01-22 Dr. J. Rallison "Fluid Dynamics in the Kitchen" OCR 328 46 662 1996-02-05 Mr. G.J. McCaughan "Why Leibniz was right" OCR 335 24 663 1996-02-22 d Sir M.F. Atiyah Annual Dinner OK 338 34 664 1996-03-11 Dr. W.T. Gowers "How easy is it for drunkards to escape their past" OCR 340 31 664a 1996-06-21 c Adams Cricket Match (defeated) SJC --- 665 1996-10-14 Prof. H.S. Tropp "Pioneers of Computing" OCR 344 34 666 1996-10-28 Prof. R.S. MacKay "Ghost Tori" OCR 348 40 667 1996-11-11 Dr. C.T. Sparrow "Irrational Rotations" OCR 351 37 668 1996-11-25 Dr. A.C. Norman "Some Recipes for Pi" OCR 354 42 669 1997-01-20 Mr. J.H. Dawes "Rayleigh Bénard Convection" OCR 358 36 Mr. R. Bhattacharyya "What now after Fermat?" Mr. D.G. Sheiham "Rotations in 3D" Mr. J.E. Hurd "Cryptography" 670 1997-02-03 Dr. T.E. Forster "Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem" OCR 365 21 671 1997-02-17 Prof. R.R. Weber "Bargaining, Arbitration and Voting Games" OCR 367 25 672 1997-03-03 Dr. R. Hoyle "Patterns in Natural Systems" OCR 370 18 673 1997-03-04 d Dr. M.R.E. Proctor Annual Dinner ML 374 673a 1997-06-16 c Adams Cricket Match (rained off) OF --- 673b 1997-06-18 c Adams Cricket Match (Adams didn't turn up, TMS played seven a side) OF --- 674 1997-10-13 Dr. T.W. Körner "Marriage, Duels and Such Like Entanglements" OCR 376 70 675 1997-10-27 Prof. H.S. Tropp "The Origin of the Mathematical (Computing) Laboratory: 1937-" OCR 380 18 VOLUME XII ---------- mmmxx yyyy-mm-dd fff joint speaker title venue ppp aud 676 1997-11-10 Dr. R.G.E. Pinch "How to Share a Secret" OCR 6 27 677 1997-11-17 Dr. N.P. Strickland "Counting Holes" OCR 11 20 678 1998-01-19 Dr. E.J. Hinch "A Load of Balls in Newton's Cradle" OCR 18 29 679 1998-01-26 Dr. M.G. Worster "The Fluid Mechanics of Melting and Solidification: Why does the ice melt so quickly in your whisky?" OCR 23 17 680 1998-02-16 Dr. M.J. Perry "Time Machines" OCR 29 40 681 1998-03-02 Dr. J. Saxl "Groups and Graphs" OCR 35 26 682 1998-03-09 d Prof. Sir M. Berry Annual Dinner OK 40 682a 1998-06-09 c Adams Cricket Match (defeated) SJC 45 683 1998-10-12 Dr. S.P. Bursill-Hall "The Trinity Hangman: Local Boy Makes Good" OCR 46 39 684 1998-10-26 Prof. W.T. Gowers "Fractal Geometry: more than just a few pretty pictures?" OCR 50 88 685 1998-11-09 Dr. H. Osborn "Can relativity be extended to acceleration?" OCR 55 35 686 1998-11-23 Prof. H.E. Huppert "How fluid is the earth - did it move for you?" OCR 59 26 687 1999-01-18 Ms. E.F. Shuckburgh "A stirring tale of mixing: Chaotic advection, transport barriers and ozone depletion" OCR 64 35 688 1999-02-01 Prof. J.C.R. Hunt "Does the chaos theory tend to overestimate errors in weather predictions?" OCR 72 689 1999-02-15 Dr. J. Nekovar "Symplectic Geometry: from Optics to Number Theory" OCR 75 12 690 1999-03-01 Prof. T.J. Pedley "Bioconvection; Pattern forming in swimming Micro-organisms" OCR 81 11 691 1999-03-08 d Dr. B. Bollobás Annual Dinner ML 84 42 691a 1999-06-11 c Adams Cricket Match (victorious) OF 88 692 1999-10-11 Dr. J.R. Norris "When does coagulation lead to gelation?" OCR 91 6 693 1999-10-25 Dr. A.D. Burbanks "Gödel, Goodstein and the Edge of Provability" OCR 94 30 694 1999-11-08 Dr. S.T.C. Siklos "Singularities and the Big Bang" OCR 101 42 695 1999-11-22 Dr. D.J.C. MacKay "How to Swing" WLT 105 10 696 2000-01-24 Dr. A. Iserles "Computation in Lie Groups" BHPR 108 16 697 2000-02-07 Dr. P.T. Johnstone "De Morgan's Laws and the Axiom of Part 1A" JP 112 32 698 2000-02-21 Dr. R.M. Williams "The Twin Paradox - Which twin is older?" JP 115 16 699 2000-03-06 Dr. E.P.S. Shellard "Cosmology, Methods and Madness" JP 120 10 700 2000-03-13 d Prof. E.J. Hinch Annual Dinner ML 123 700a 2000-06-22 c Adams Cricket Match (victorious) SJC 124 (there was no Secretary in 2000-2001, and minutes were not taken) 701 2000-10-16 Dr. S.P. Bursill-Hall "The Good, the Bad, and the Downright Stupid: Why you don't believe Copernicus" JP --- 702 2000-10-23 Dr. J.M.E. Hyland "What is the Eckmann Hilton Argument?" BHPR --- 703 2000-11-07 Dr. D.J. Wischik "How (not) to Crash the Internet" JP --- 704 2001-01-22 Mr. B.J. Green "Hardy and Littlewood" JP --- 705 2001-02-05 Prof. M.R.E. Proctor "Patterns and Patches" JP --- 706 2001-02-19 Dr. I.B. Leader "The Axiom of Choice" JP --- 707 2001-03-12 d Dr. R.E. Hunt Annual Dinner ML --- 707a 2001-06-15 c Adams Cricket Match (victorious) OF --- (there was no Secretary in 2001-2002, and minutes were not taken) 708 2001-10-15 Dr. S.P. Bursill-Hall "And now for something completely different - when engineers did maths and Mathmos talked to God" OCR --- 709 2001-10-29 Dr. T.W. Körner "From waves to wavelets: 2000 years in under an hour" OCR --- 710 2001-11-12 Ms. J.R. Gog "How to model your favourite disease" OCR --- 711 2001-11-26 r Mathematical Call My Bluff OCR --- 712 2002-01-28 Dr. H. Osborn "Conformal symmetry" OCR --- 713 2002-02-11 Dr. A.M. Stacey "Why greedy isn't best" OCR --- 714 2002-02-25 Dr. T.K. Carne "Geometry for the simple-minded" OCR --- 715 2002-03-04 Dr. J.R. Lister "Dykes" OCR --- 716 2002-03-11 d Prof. M.R.E. Proctor Annual Dinner ML 129 717 2002-03-13 e Annual General Meeting NI4 --- 717a 2002-06-17 c Adams Cricket Match (victorious) OF --- 718 2002-10-14 Prof. W.T. Gowers "A Handful of Unsolved Problems" OCR 130 80 719 2002-10-28 Dr. S.P. Bursill-Hall "Which came first: God or maths?" OCR 132 60 720 2002-11-11 Prof. E.J. Hinch "Explaining the Flow of Elastic Liquids" OCR 136 21 721 2002-11-25 Mr. E.T. Crane "Complex dynamics: Julia and the rabbit" OCR 137 34 722 2002-12-02 r Mathematical Call My Bluff OCR 138 28 723 2003-01-20 Dr. I.B. Leader "Van der Waerden's Theorem" OCR 139 30 724 2003-02-03 Prof. N.G. Turok "Can We Understand the Universe?" OCR 141 34 725 2003-02-17 Dr. O.M. Riordan "The Eternity Puzzle" OCR 142 27 726 2003-03-04 Prof. G.R. Grimmett "Random Mirrors" OCR 146 14 727 2003-03-10 d Dr. I.B. Leader Annual Dinner ML 149 29 728 2003-03-11 e Annual General Meeting KI11 150 7 728a 2003-06-19 c Adams Cricket Match (victorious) SJC 153 729 2003-10-13 Prof. T.W. Körner "Sorting Things Out" OCR 157 80 730 2003-10-27 Dr. S.P. Bursill-Hall "More Sex and Virgin Mathmos" OCR 164 50 731 2003-11-10 Prof. D.H. Fremlin "Rental Harmony" OCR 169 42 732 2003-11-24 Dr. R.E. Hunt "What is Maths Useful For?" OCR 174 37 733 2003-12-01 r Mathematical Call My Bluff OCR 177 39 734 2004-01-19 Prof. J.H. Coates "The Oldest Problem" JP 180 49 735 2004-01-26 Dr. G.P. Paternain "The Poincaré Conjecture" AHSR 183 29 736 2004-02-16 Mr. T.J. Barnet-Lamb "Homage to Hofstadter, or thereabouts..." AHSR 186 43 737 2004-03-01 Dr. E. Cheng "Logic vs illogic: why mathematics is easy and life is hard" WLT 187 46 738 2004-03-04 d Dr. A.C. Norman Annual Dinner ML 191 27 739 2004-03-05 e Annual General Meeting BA8 192 10 739a 2004-06-18 c Adams Cricket Match (victorious) OF 198