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Three Sadleirian Professors: A. R. Forsyth, E. W. Hobson and G. H. Hardy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

H. T. H. Piaggio*
Affiliation:
University College, Nottingham

Extract

In the present month Professor G. H. Hardy, who for eleven years has been resident in Oxford, will return to Cambridge and occupy the Sadleirian chair of mathematics, vacant by the resignation of Professor Hobson. The occasion seems a favourable one to recall the history of the Sadleirian chair and of the three distinguished living mathematicians who have occupied it. All of them have been Presidents of the Mathematical Association, and have exercised a great influence upon the teaching of our subject. We shall deal at some length with this aspect of their work. Some account will also be given of their researches, but although from a higher standpoint this is the most important of their activities, an adequate estimate of their original work will not be attempted on this occasion.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Mathematical Association 1931

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References

* This account of the history of the Sadleirian chair is derived from Professor Forsyth’s obituary notice of its first occupant, Professor Cayley (Proc. Royal Soc., Vol. 58, 1895; reprinted in Cayley’s Collected Mathematical Papers).