British Mathematical Colloquium

This was held at Durham: 8-10 September 1953.

The enrolment was 146.

Organisers were Milne-Thomson


Minutes of meetings, etc. are available at the links below


The plenary speakers were:

Rado, R Existence combinatorics -- order in chaos
Walker, A G Differential geometry in the large

The morning speakers were:

Barratt, M G The calculation of homotopy groups
Cooper, J L B Critical point methods of functional analysis
Mahler, K Transformation of analytic functions by rational functions
Pitt, H R Convergence of Fourier series
Rankin, R A The Minkowski-Hajos theorem on linear forms and the factorisation of abelian groups
Stone, A H Coverings of topological spaces
Weston, J D Convolution algebras
Whitehead, J H C The elements of homotopy theory
Wright, E M A problem about prime numbers