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A Plea for Astronomy†

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

F. W. Dyson
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My first duty is to thank you for the honour you have conferred upon me in electing me as your President for the year. Once all mathematicians were astronomers and all astronomers were mathematicians. But now only some astronomers are mathematicians, and I fear that I can only claim to be one to a very limited extent. It was, however, my good fortune to be a member of a college where your ex-President was a lecturer, and to have learned there, from him and others of a very distinguished society, something of the pleasure to be obtained from the study of Mathematics.

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Research Article
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The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 7 , Issue 113 , October 1914 , pp. 394 - 398
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Copyright © The Mathematical Association 1914

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† Address to the London Branch of the Mathematical Association. February 7th, 1914.

* Essentially the same form of proof is given by J. L. S. Hatton, Projective Geometry (Cam. Univ. Press, 1913), 1). 19. The elegance of the proof disguises its logical unsoundness.