The Mathematical Association

doi:10.1017/s0025557200068248

The Mathematical Association

The Mathematical Gazette ◽

10.1017/s0025557200068248 ◽

1939 ◽

Vol 23 (253) ◽

pp. 3-5

Keyword(s):

Annual Meeting ◽

Mathematical Association ◽

King's College

The Annual Meeting of the Mathematical Association was held at King’s College, London, on 2nd and 3rd January, 1939. On Monday, 2nd January, the proceedings opened at 2.15 p.m. with the transaction of business, the President, Mr. W Hope-Jones, was in the chair. The Report of the Council for 1938 was adopted. The Hon. Treasurer presented a statement of accounts for the year ending 31st October, 1938.

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Mathematics, a third way

The Mathematical Gazette ◽

10.1017/s0025557200005477 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 97 (538) ◽

pp. 101-106 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Christopher Ormell

Keyword(s):

School Curriculum ◽

Annual Conference ◽

Third Way ◽

Mathematical Association ◽

King's College ◽

The Future ◽

Spatial Imagination ◽

Main Figure

As I write (Spring 2012) I am aware that I have been a member of the Mathematical Association for fifty years. I joined during the annual conference in 1962 when Dr Combridge was the main figure in the society. The highlight was a session at the conference (at King's College, London) by Geoffrey Matthews showing how matrices might be introduced into the school curriculum. Some treated this as hilarious, others as a signpost to the future. My friend Frank Budden and I regarded it as a premature ploy, which, we thought, might not tum out to be such a good idea. We subsequently wrote a successful book Mathematics through Geometry (1964) arguing in detail why the modem mathematics revolution—which was then gathering pace—might end in tears. We identified spatial imagination as the heartland of mathematics, and contrasted it with a denial of spatial imagination in the abstract calculi which were all the vogue at the time.

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