Gresham Professor of Geometry

{{Short description|Title held by eminent maths professors at Gresham College}}

File:Goriely-blackboard-bw-square.jpg FRS, appointed Gresham Professor of Geometry in 2024]]

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

The Professor of Geometry at Gresham College, London, gives free educational lectures to the general public. The college was founded for this purpose in 1597, when it created seven professorships; this was later increased to ten. Geometry is one of the original professorships as set out by the will of Thomas Gresham in 1575. The Professor of Geometry is appointed in partnership with the City of London Corporation.{{Cite web |title=How We Recruit Speakers {{!}} Gresham College |url=https://www.gresham.ac.uk/about-us/organisation/how-we-recruit-speakers |access-date=2024-06-12 |website=www.gresham.ac.uk |language=en}}

List of Gresham Professors of Geometry

Note, the notation used in dates given as, for example, "159{{frac|6|7}}" refer to the practice of dual dating dates between 1 January and 25 March.

class= "wikitable"
NameStarted
1Henry BriggsMarch 159{{frac|6|7}}
2Peter Turner25 July 1620
3John Greaves22 February 16{{frac|30|31}}
4Ralph Button15 November 1643
5Daniel Whistler13 June 1648
6Laurence Rooke7 August 1657
7Isaac Barrow16 July 1662
8Arthur Dacres20 May 1664
9Robert Hooke20 March 166{{frac|4|5}}
10Andrew Tooke5 July 1704
11Thomas Tomlinson3 July 1729
12George Newland27 Jan 173{{frac|1|2}}
13William Roman28 Nov 1749
14Wilfred Clarke28 August 1759
15S. Kittleby5 March 1765
16Samuel Birch{{acad|BRC798S|Birch, Samuel}}5 July 1808
17Robert Pitt Edkins{{acad|EDKS826RP|Edkins, Robert Pitt}}22 July 1848
18Benjamin Morgan Cowie{{acad|CWY833BM|Cowie, Benjamin Morgan}}18 Dec 1854
19Karl Pearson15 Dec 1890
20William Henry Wagstaff{{acad|WGSF885WH|Wagstaff, William Henry}}13 June 1894
colspan =3 | 1939–45 Lectures in abeyance
21Louis Melville Milne-Thomson29 May 1946
22Thomas A. A. Broadbent1956
23Sir Bryan Thwaites1969
24Clive W. Kilmister{{Cite web |title=Professor Clive Kilmister {{!}} Gresham College |url=https://www.gresham.ac.uk/speakers/professor-clive-kilmister |access-date=2024-05-22 |website=www.gresham.ac.uk |language=en}}1972
25Sir Christopher Zeeman{{Cite web |title=Sir Christopher Zeeman {{!}} Gresham College |url=https://www.gresham.ac.uk/speakers/sir-christopher-zeeman |access-date=2024-05-22 |website=www.gresham.ac.uk |language=en}}1988
26Ian Stewart FRS{{Cite web |title=Professor Ian Stewart FRS {{!}} Gresham College |url=https://www.gresham.ac.uk/speakers/professor-ian-stewart-frs |access-date=2024-05-22 |website=www.gresham.ac.uk |language=en}}1994
27Sir Roger Penrose FRS{{Cite web |title=Sir Roger Penrose {{!}} Gresham College |url=https://www.gresham.ac.uk/speakers/roger-penrose |access-date=2024-05-22 |website=www.gresham.ac.uk |language=en}}1 Sept 1998
28Harold Thimbleby{{Cite web |title=Professor Harold Thimbleby {{!}} Gresham College |url=https://www.gresham.ac.uk/speakers/professor-harold-thimbleby |access-date=2024-05-22 |website=www.gresham.ac.uk |language=en}}1 Sept 2001
29Robin Wilson{{Cite web |title=Professor Robin Wilson {{!}} Gresham College |url=https://www.gresham.ac.uk/speakers/professor-robin-wilson |access-date=2024-05-22 |website=www.gresham.ac.uk |language=en}}1 Sept 2004
30John D. Barrow{{Cite web |title=Professor John D Barrow FRS {{!}} Gresham College |url=https://www.gresham.ac.uk/speakers/professor-john-d-barrow-frs |access-date=2024-05-22 |website=www.gresham.ac.uk |language=en}}1 Sept 2008
31Raymond Flood{{Cite web |title=Professor Raymond Flood {{!}} Gresham College |url=https://www.gresham.ac.uk/speakers/professor-raymond-flood |access-date=2024-05-22 |website=www.gresham.ac.uk |language=en}}2012
32Chris Budd OBE{{Cite web |title=Professor Chris Budd {{!}} Gresham College |url=https://www.gresham.ac.uk/speakers/professor-chris-budd |access-date=2024-05-22 |website=www.gresham.ac.uk |language=en}}2016
33Sarah Hart{{Cite web |title=Professor Sarah Hart {{!}} Gresham College |url=https://www.gresham.ac.uk/speakers/professor-sarah-hart |access-date=2024-05-22 |website=www.gresham.ac.uk |language=en}}2020
34

|Alain Goriely{{Cite web |title=Professor Alain Goriely {{!}} Gresham College |url=https://www.gresham.ac.uk/speakers/professor-alain-goriely |access-date=2024-06-12 |website=www.gresham.ac.uk |language=en}}

|2024

References

  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20041019231900/http://www.gresham.ac.uk/special/professors.htm Gresham College old website, Internet Archive] List of professors
  • [https://www.gresham.ac.uk/professorships/geometry-professorship/ Gresham College website] Profile of current professor and list of past professors

Notes

{{Reflist}}

Further reading

  • {{cite book | last= Ward| first= John| author-link=John Ward (academic) | title= The Lives of the Professors of Gresham College| year= 1740| publisher= Johnson Reprint Corporation| location= New York & London}}

{{Gresham College}}

Geometry

Category:1596 establishments in England

Category:Professorships in mathematics

Category:Mathematics education in the United Kingdom