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Robbins—and all that*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

I. W. Busbridge
I. W. Busbridge*
Affiliation:
St. Hugh’s college, Oxford
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Ladies and gentlemen—It has become customary for the President of the Association, when a university teacher, to speak of some aspect of mathematics in which he or she is an expert. When the Council of the Association did me the very great honour of inviting me to preside over this conference, the first, I believe, ever to be held in Oxford or Cambridge, I decided to break away from tradition. This decision was strengthened when I knew that I was to have the privilege and responsibility of addressing you in the Shel-donian, which is furnished with no apparent visual aids.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 49 , Issue 369 , October 1965 , pp. 241 - 252
Copyright
Copyright © Mathematical Association 1965 

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Footnotes

*

Presidential Address to the Mathematical Association at the Annual General Meeting at Oxford, April 13, 1965.

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