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 Solar eclipse of May 28, 1900. Preliminary report of the expedition to the south limit of totality to obtain photographs of the flash spectrum in high solar latitudes

1901 ◽  
Vol 67 (435-441) ◽  
pp. 370-385 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Solar Eclipse ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Preliminary Report ◽  
The South ◽  
Astronomical Society ◽  
Royal Astronomical Society ◽  
The Government ◽  
Flash Spectrum ◽  
Government Grant

This expedition was one of those organised by the Joint Permanent Eclipse Committee of the Royal Society and the Royal Astronomical Society, funds being provided from a grant made by the Government Grant Committee. The following were the principal objects which I had in view in arranging the expedition:— To obtain a long series of photographs of the chromosphere and flash spectrum, including regions of the sun’s surface in mid-latitudes, and near one of the poles.

scholarly journals Address BY Dr. J. H. Jeans, President of the Royal Astronomical Society and Secretary of the Royal Society.

1925 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 151-152
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Special Care ◽  
Natural Knowledge ◽  
Astronomical Society ◽  
Good Fortune ◽  
Royal Astronomical Society ◽  
Vice Chancellor ◽  
Learned Societies ◽  
Lord Chancellor

My Lord Chancellor, Mr. Vice-Chancellor, Dr. Campbell, Ladies and Gentlemen: It would be an impertinence on my part to try to add anything to the Cambridge welcome which the Chancellor has offered you, but it is my privilege to be allowed to offer you a few words of welcome from a somewhat different angle. As the Chancellor has said, it is my good fortune to be officially connected with the two learned societies to whom, I suppose, your visit to this country means most: the Royal Society, which takes all natural knowledge for its province, and which is especially interested in international co-operation in the pursuit of such knowledge, and the Royal Astronomical Society, which takes astronomical knowledge for its special care. I am sure that both these bodies would wish that I should seize this opportunity to offer a most cordial welcome to our astronomical visitors from other countries; a welcome not only to Cambridge, but to this country in general. We feel it right that your visit should begin at Cambridge, but we are sure it is not right that it should end there; we hope you will remember that, after Cambridge, London also exists.

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.

Napier Tercentenary Celebration, July 1914

1914 ◽  
Vol 7 (110) ◽  
pp. 299-300
Author(s):  
C.G. Knott
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
History Of Mathematics ◽  
Astronomical Society ◽  
Town Council ◽  
Royal Astronomical Society ◽  
University College ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University ◽  
The Town ◽  
Educational Importance

John Napier's Logarithmorum Canonis Mirifici Descriptio was published in 1614 ; and it is proposed to celebrate the tercentenary of this great event in the history of mathematics by a Congress, to be held in Edinburgh on Friday, 24th July, 1914, and following days.The Celebration is being held under the auspices of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, on whose invitation a General Committee has been formed, representing the Royal Society of London, the Royal Astronomical Society, the Town Council of Edinburgh, the Faculty of Actuaries, the Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow, the Universities of St. Andrews, Glasgow, Aberdeen, and Edinburgh, the University College of Dundee, and many other bodies and institutions of educational importance.The President and Council of the Royal Society of Edinburgh have now the honour of giving a general invitation to mathematicians and others interested in this coming Celebration.

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