Littlewood, John Edensor, (9 June 1885–6 Sept. 1977), Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, since 1908; Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics in University of Cambridge, 1928–50; Fellow of the Cambridge Philosophical Society; Royal Medallist of the Royal Society, 1929, Sylvester Medallist, 1944; Copley Medallist, 1958; De Morgan Medallist, London Mathematical Society, 1939, Senior Berwick Prize, 1960; Corr. Member, French and Göttingen Academies; Former Member Royal Dutch, Royal Danish and Royal Swedish Academies

2007 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Trinity College ◽  
London Mathematical Society ◽  
Mathematical Society ◽  
Cambridge Philosophical Society ◽  
University Of Cambridge

scholarly journals Obituary notices

1930 ◽  
Vol 126 (803) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Trinity College ◽  
London Mathematical Society ◽  
Mathematical Society ◽  
Astronomical Society ◽  
Senior Member ◽  
Royal Astronomical Society

Dr. Glaisher died on December 7, 1928, at the age of eighty years. At the time of his death he was the senior of the actual Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge, was the senior member of the London Mathematical Society, and was almost the senior in standing among the Fellows of the Royal Society and among the Fellows of the Royal Astronomical Society. Throughout all his years he was devoted to astronomy, chiefly in its mathematical developments. In his prime he ranked as one of the recognised English pure mathematicians of his generation, pursuing mainly well-established subjects by methods that were uninfluenced by the current developments of analysis then effected in France and in Germany. Towards the end of his life he had attained high station as an authority on pottery, of which he had diligently amassed a famous collection. Glaisher was the elder son of James Glaisher, F. R. S., himself an astronomer, a mathematician specially occupied with the calculation of numerical tables, and a pioneer in meteorology, not without risk to his life. For the father, one of the founders of the Aeronautical Society of Great Britain, was an aeronaut of note; with Coxwell, in 1862, he made the famous balloon ascent which reached the greatest height (about seven miles) ever recorded by survivors.

Geoffrey Thomas Bennett 1868-1943

1944 ◽  
Vol 4 (13) ◽  
pp. 596-615
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Trinity College ◽  
London Mathematical Society ◽  
Mathematical Society ◽  
University College

Dr Geoffrey Thomas Bennett, who was made Fellow of the Royal Society in 1914, and served on the Council 1936-1938, died at Cambridge, after an operation, on 11 October 1943. Born in London, 30 June 1868, he was at University College School, under H. W. Eve as Headmaster, for three years, till 1886, but at University College, of which the school was then an integral part, for the session 1886-1887. As a distinguished alumnus he was elected Fellow of University College in 1892. At University College School his mathematical master was Robert Tucker, well known for many years as the genial and keen Secretary (with Morgan Jenkins) of the London Mathematical Society, who edited Clifford’s papers and was the origin of ‘Tucker’s Circle’. Bennett obtained a scholarship at St John’s College, Cambridge, in December 1886, and came into residence October 1887. Another pupil of Tucker’s, Vaughan, came up to Trinity College at the same time. In 1890 Bennett was placed first of the men in the Mathematical Tripos, as senior wrangler, Miss Fawcett being placed above him; in 1891 he obtained, with her, a First Class in the Second Part of the examination, and the first Smith’s Prize in 1892. He was then made Fellow of St John’s College; but in 1893 he was appointed at Emmanuel College to be College Lecturer in Mathematics (and Junior Fellow at that college), with W. B. Allcock as his Emmanuel colleague. Previously Mr R. R. Webb, though resident in St John’s, had given lectures for the group of five colleges of which Emmanuel was part, and Bennett had been ‘coached’ by him through his undergraduate career.

scholarly journals Dame Mary (Lucy) Cartwright, D.B.E. 17 December 1900 – 3 April 1998

2000 ◽  
Vol 46 ◽  
pp. 19-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
W.K. Hayman
Keyword(s):  
Chaos Theory ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
London Mathematical Society ◽  
Mathematical Society ◽  
Modern World

Mary Cartwright, with J.E. Littlewood, F.R.S., first observed the phenomena that developed into Chaos Theory. Thus she had a significant effect on the modern world. She was the only woman so far to be a president of the London Mathematical Society, one of the first to be a Fellow of The Royal Society and the first woman to serve on its Council.

scholarly journals Godfrey Harold Hardy, 1877–1947

1948 ◽  
Vol 32 (299) ◽  
pp. 49-51
Author(s):  
T. A. A. B. ◽  
M. H. A. Newman ◽  
A. V. Hill
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
London Mathematical Society ◽  
Mathematical Society ◽  
Full Account ◽  
The Past ◽  
Inaugural Lecture ◽  
Mathematical World

The death of the greatest English mathematician of our time is no mere national loss, for Hardy was recognised throughout the mathematical world as a master of our science. Of his studies, Hardy himself said, in his Inaugural Lecture at Oxford: “What we do may be small, but it has a certain character of permanence”. Few of us would dare to call Hardy’s contribution to mathematics small, while none of us can have any doubt about the lasting nature of his work. For a full account of the new pathways he opened up, the new territories he explored, reference must be made to the notices being prepared for the Royal Society and the London Mathematical Society. In the Gazette, it is fitting that we should record with special emphasis the debt which teachers of mathematics in this country owe to Hardy for the vast improvements in the teaching of analysis during the past forty years, from vagueness to precision, from obscurity to clarity, along lines mapped out and laid down for us by him.

scholarly journals Obituary notices

1930 ◽  
Vol 129 (811) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Applied Mathematics ◽  
London Mathematical Society ◽  
Vice President ◽  
Mathematical Physics ◽  
Mathematical Society

Thomas John I’Anson Bromwich, who died on August 24, 1929, was one of the most accomplished and most versatile among English mathematicians of the last fifty years. He was born in Wolverhampton on February 8, 1875, but spent his youth in Natal, and was educated in Durban. He came to Cambridge, as a Pensioner of St. John’s College, in October, 1892. A brilliant career as an undergraduate ended when he was Senior Wrangler in 1895, in an exceptionally strong year which included also E. T. Whittaker and J. H. Grace- He obtained a Fellowship in 1897, but left Cambridge in 1902 to be Professor of Mathematics in Galway, returning in 1907 when appointed a permanent lecturer at St. John’s. He was also a University Lecturer from 1909 to 1926. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1906 and a Doctor of Science in 1909. He was for many years a most enthusiastic and energetic member of the London Mathematical Society, of which he was Secretary from 1911 to 1919, and Vice-President in 1919 and 1920. He married in 1901, and leaves a widow and one son. Bromwich’s work covers so wide a field that it is hardly possible for any one person to deal with it competently. His later work in mathematical physics is discussed in Dr. Jeffrey’s notice in the ‘Journal of the London Mathematical Society,’ vol. 5, p. 220. Prof. H. W. Turnbull and Prof. A. E. H. Love have very kindly provided me with notes concerning Bromwich’s early work, in algebra and in applied mathematics respectively, and what I say about these subjects is very largley based on them.

Rutherford Centenary Celebrations

1972 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-5
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Trinity College ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Cavendish Laboratory ◽  
Radio Observatory ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
The One ◽  
The University

In preparation for the celebration of the centenary of the birth of Lord Rutherford of Nelson, O.M., F.R.S., Council, on 5 March 1970, appointed Professor T. E. Allibone, F.R.S., chairman of a panel to make the necessary arrangements. It was proposed that the one-day event at the Royal Society should include the presentation of three invited lectures in the morning and afternoon and a reception during the evening. The day subsequently chosen for the celebration was 28 October 1971. While these arrangements were being made invitations were received for the participants to visit the University of Cambridge, the Science Research Council’s Rutherford Laboratory and the U.K.A.E.A.’s Culham Laboratory and these visits were included in the programme of events on 27 and 29 October. At Cambridge a morning visit to the Lord’s Bridge Mullard Radio Observatory was followed by an Open Day in the Cavendish Laboratory with a lecture by Dr J. B. Adams, F. R. S. on Four Generations of Nuclear Physicists , which is printed on page 75 et seq . The Master and Fellows of Trinity College entertained the visitors at dinner in the evening. The Rutherford Laboratory was visited on the morning of 29 October and the Culham Laboratory in the afternoon of the same day.

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