British Mathematical Colloquium

This was held at Reading: 26-28 March 1958.

The enrolment was 170.

Organisers were R Rado


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


The plenary speakers were:

Kreisel, G The meaning of Brouwer's free choice sequences
Milnor, J On the existence of division algebras over the real numbers
Neyman, J Mathematical statistics - foundations and some unsolved problems

The morning speakers were:

Besicovitch, A S Homeomorphism
Dowker, Y N Ergodic theorems and counter examples
Goldie, A W The structure of rings
Gruenberg, K W Finite dimensional associative algebras
Macbeath, A M Topics in integral geometry
Neumann, B H Almost finite and almost abelian groups
Reuter, G E H Diffusion processes
Roth, L Unirational varieties
Zeeman, E C Homological algebra