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Mathematics—Slave, Servant or Sovereign?*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

J.T. Combridge
J.T. Combridge*
Affiliation:
Kings's Collage, London
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It is more than 91 years since, on January 17th 1871, a group of twenty-six men met in another place and formed the Association for the Improvement of Geometrical Teaching, which twenty-five years later became the Mathematical Association. Most were schoolmasters; some were clergymen; the account of the proceedings in the first annual report adds: “There were also a few gentlemen present who were not members of the Association.” The ladies were allowed to join later.

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The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 46 , Issue 357 , October 1962, pp. 179 - 196
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Copyright © Mathematical Association 1962

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Footnotes

page note 179 *

Presidential Address to the Mathematical Association at the Annual General Meeting at King’s College London, April 17th 1962.

References

page note 187 * G. Bell & Sons Ltd., 1952.

page note 188 * Hutchinson’s University Library, London 1960, p. 10.

page note 188 † Simon & Schuster, New York 1953, p. 189.

page note 189 * Math. Gaz. XLV (Dec. 1961) pp. 305-318.

page note 191 * Rend, del Circ. Mat. di Palermo, XLII, 1917, pp. 173-205.

page note 191 † “Albert Einstein” by Carl Seelig (trs. Mervyn Savill), Staples Press Ltd., London 1956, pp. 70-71.

page note 191 ‡ “What is Cybernetics”? (trs. Valerie MacKay), Heinemann, 1959, p. 96.

page note 192 * Victor Gollancz, 1956, pp. 77-78.

page note 195 * “I am a mathematician,” Victor Gollancz, 1956, p. 33.