British Mathematical Colloquium

This was held at Exeter: 6-8 September 1955.

The enrolment was 179.

Organisers were T A Brown


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


The plenary speakers were:

Cartan, H On the Eilenberg-Mac Lane groups
Newman, M H A Ordinal logic
Reidermeister, K Knots and braids

The morning speakers were:

Barnard, G A Recent developments in the theory of statistical inference
Green, J A The character of the finite general linear groups
Hilton, P J Fibre spaces
Kendall, D G Markov processes and semigroups
Rogers, C A The moments of the number of points of a lattice in a bounded starbody
Ruston, A F Complex function theory for vector-valued functions
Smithies, F The Weierstrass-Stone approximation theorem
Wall, G E Algebraic theory of the classical groups
Yates, F How will electronic computers affect statistics?