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Whitehead, John Henry Constantine (1904-1960) mathematician

  • GB 275 003375
  • Person
  • 1904-1960

Admitted at Balliol College, Oxford 1923, first class degree 1926. Studied at Princeton 1928-32 under Oswald Veblen and published, with Veblen, 'The Foundations of Differential Geometry' in 1932. Became Fellow and Tutor at Balliol 1933. Elected F. R. S. in 1944. Wayneflete Professor of Pure Mathematics at Oxford 1947-60. President of London Mathematical Society 1953-5.

White, Francis Puryer (1893-1969) mathematician

  • GB 275 000126
  • Person
  • 1893-1969

White came up to St John's as a mathematical scholar in 1912, graduating BA in 1915. In 1916 he was elected to the Isaac Newton Studentship in Astronomy and Optical Physics, a post he held for three years before being elected a Fellow of the College. He was appointed a College Lecturer in 1920 and was Director of Studies in Mathematics from 1945 to 1959. He served on the Council of the London Mathematical Society from 1923 to 1947, and was Secretary of the Cambridge Philosophical Society from 1924 to 1936, and its President from 1961 to 1963. He was appointed Librarian at St John's College in 1948, a post he held until his retirement in 1961, and served as Keeper of the College Records 1961-9.

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