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	Encyclopedia: Roger Penrose (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sir Roger Penrose, OM, FRS (born 8 August 1931) is an English mathematical physicist and Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford.
		Mathematical physics is the scientific field in between mathematics and physics; it studies the problems inspired by physics within a mathematically rigorous framework.
		Walter William Rouse Ball (1850 August 14–1925 April 4) was a Brtish mathematician, and a fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge from 1878 to 1905.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Roger-Penrose (3303 words)

	Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics - TheBestLinks.com - Cambridge University, 1927, John Edensor Littlewood, W. W. ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics - TheBestLinks.com - Cambridge University, 1927, John Edensor Littlewood, W. Rouse Ball,...
		Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics, Cambridge University, Mathematics, 1927...
		The Rouse Ball Professorship of Mathematics is one of the senior chairs in Mathematics at Cambridge University, and was founded in 1927 by a bequest from the mathematician Rouse Ball.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Rouse_Ball_Professor_of_Mathematics.html (104 words)

	Encyclopedia: List of Professorships at the University of Cambridge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		During the early history of the University of Cambridge, the title professor simply denoted a doctor who taught in the university, a usage that continues to be found in, for example, US universities.
		However, from the 16th century onwards in Cambridge it was used to denote those holding "chairs" that had been founded by the university in a particular subject or endowed by a benefaction.
		Mary Marshall and Arthur Walton Professor of the Physiology of Reproduction, 1967
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/List-of-Professorships-at-the-University-of-Cambridge (449 words)

	Read about Category:Mathematics at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Category:Mathematics and learn about ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Mathematics is often defined as the study of structure, change, and
		mathematical notation; other views are described in the
		list of mathematical topics for a far more advanced list of mathematical topics.
	encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/Category:Mathematics (109 words)

	NATIONAL MEDAL OF SCIENCE GOES TO UF MATHEMATICS PROFESSOR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		John Griggs Thompson, a graduate research professor of mathematics, is one of 12 recipients of the National Medal of Science awarded by President Clinton, the White House announced today.
		Group theory is a branch of mathematics that focuses on the study of symmetries -- such as the symmetries of a geometric figure, or symmetries that arise in solutions to algebraic equations.
		In 1970, he was appointed Rouse Ball Professor at the University of Cambridge, where he spent the next 23 years before coming to UF in 1993.
	www.napa.ufl.edu /2000news/mathpriz.htm (714 words)

	Science and the Mind
		Roger Penrose, a professor of mathematics at the University of Oxford in England, pursues an active interest in recreational mathematics which he shared with his father.
		Professor Penrose tells of a striking demonstration of the benefits of pure research - a French company has recently found a very practical application for substances that form these quasi-crystals: they make excellent non-scratch coating for frying pans.
		Penrose was raised in a family with strong mathematical interests: his mother was a doctor, his father, a medical geneticist, used math in his work as well as his recreation, one brother is a mathematician, another was ten times British chess champion.
	www.physics.hku.hk /events/science_mind/mind_bg.html (1660 words)

	U. of I. Physicist Named IOP Honorary Fellow
		The awards were presented by Sir Gareth Roberts, the president of the IOP, a learned society for professional physicists charged by British Royal Charter to "promote the advancement and dissemination of a knowledge of and education in the science of physics, pure and applied." The IOP is celebrating its 125th anniversary.
		Along with Penrose, the Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford, Hawking predicted that a star collapsing to form a fl hole would ultimately form a singularity.
		Berry is a Royal Society Research Professor at the University of Bristol and has made fundamental contributions to the understanding of the foundations of quantum physics.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/1999-01/UoIa-UoIP-210199.php (430 words)

	Encyclopedia: William Timothy Gowers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The European Mathematical Society (EMS) is an european organization dedicated to the development of mathematics in Europe.
		Functional analysis is that branch of mathematics and specifically of analysis which is concerned with the study of spaces of functions.
		Combinatorics is a branch of mathematics that studies finite collections of objects that satisfy specified criteria.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/William-Timothy-Gowers (595 words)

	MATHEMATICS by Gowers, Timothy, GOWERS, TIMOTHY (ROUSE BALL PROFESSOR OF MATHEMATICS, CAMBRI, GOWERS, TIMOTHY (ROUSE ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		MATHEMATICS by Gowers, Timothy, GOWERS, TIMOTHY (ROUSE BALL PROFESSOR OF MATHEMATICS, CAMBRI, GOWERS, TIMOTHY (ROUSE BALL PROFESSOR OF MATHEMATICS, CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY)
		It is the ideal introduction for anyone who wishes to deepen their understanding of mathematics.
		The aim of this book is to explain, carefully but not technically, the differences between advanced, research-level mathematics, and the sort of mathematics we learn at school.
	www.studentbookworld.com /BookDetail/0192853619.html (234 words)

	Littlewood
		This chair had been founded by a benefaction from Walter Rouse Ball after his death in 1925, and Littlewood was its first occupant.
		It was a particularly appropriate choice, not only because of his outstanding mathematical contributions, but also since Littlewood had been tutored by Rouse Ball in his undergraduate days at Trinity.
		As Rouse Ball Professor, Littlewood could lecture on topics of his own choice and he no longer had to take part in routine teaching.
	www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /%7Ehistory/Mathematicians/Littlewood.html (2258 words)

	Davenport
		He studied mathematics and chemistry at Manchester being taught complex analysis by Mordell and applied mathematics by Milne.
		He had Fowler as an applied mathematics director, and at first his pure mathematics director was S Pollard, then later was Besicovitch.
		In 1941 Davenport was appointed to the chair of mathematics at the University College of North Wales at Bangor.
	www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /%7Ehistory/Mathematicians/Davenport.html (1559 words)

	Penrose (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Roger, however, was set on research in mathematics and on entering St John's College he began research in algebraic geometry supervised by Hodge.
		In 1973 he was appointed Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford and he continued to hold this until he became Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics in 1998.
		of the mathematical apparatus of gravitation theory, with emphasis on the geometrical theory of the Riemann tensor.
	www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Mathematicians/Penrose.html (2164 words)

	Bonaventura Cavalieri (1598 - 1647) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Bonaventura Cavalieri was born at Milan in 1598, and died at Bologna on November 27, 1647.
		He became a Jesuit at an early age; on the recommendation of the Order he was in 1629 made professor of mathematics at Bologna; and he continued to occupy the chair there until his death.
		I have already mentioned Cavalieri's name in connection with the introduction of the use of logarithms into Italy, and have alluded to his discovery of the expression for the area of a spherical triangle in terms of the spherical excess.
	www.maths.tcd.ie /pub/HistMath/People/Cavalieri/RouseBall/RB_Cavalieri.html (914 words)

	BSHM: Gazetteer -- C
		The Rouse Ball Professorship was founded in 1928 by a bequest from Rouse Ball.
		Robert Stawell Ball (1840-1913) was a Fellow of King's, Lowndean Professor (1892-1914), Director of the Observatory.
		Rouse Ball (1850-1925) was a student of Trinity, being second wrangler and first Smith's prizeman in 1874.
	www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk /bshm/zingaz/C.html (13304 words)

	Roger Penrose: Shadows of the Mind (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		He is Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford and was elected in 1998 a member of the prestigious National Academy of Sciences.
		He says that "Mathematical thinking is a very tiny area of conscious activity that is indulged in by a tiny minority of conscious beings for a limited fraction of their conscious lives."(p.52).
		Using rather complex mathematics, Penrose summarizes and smoothens the developments of his theory so that the reader with a modest mathematical training can follow the fundamentals of his arguments.
	uque.uniandes.edu.co /%7Efsalcedo/voc/Roger_Penros1.htm (1366 words)

	Rouse, James W - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Rouse, James W (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		He worked briefly for the Federal Housing Administration before borrowing money to help found Rouse Co. in 1939, a mortgage brokerage firm.
		Having built Rouse Co. into the largest publicly held development corporation in the USA, he retired in 1979.
		In 1982 he founded the Enterprise Foundation, using some of his fortune to seek innovative ways to provide housing for the poor.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Rouse%2c+James+W (228 words)

	Colin Maclaurin (1698 - 1746) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		for 1743 in which he discussed from a mathematical point of view the form of a bee's cell.
		Maclaurin was one of the most able mathematicians of the eighteenth century, but his influence on the progress of British mathematics was on the whole unfortunate.
		By himself abandoning the use both of analysis and of the infinitesimal calculus, he induced Newton's countrymen to confine themselves to Newton's methods, and it was not until about 1820, when the differential calculus was introduced into the Cambridge curriculum, that English mathematicians made any general use of the more powerful methods of modern analysis.
	www.maths.tcd.ie /pub/HistMath/People/Maclaurin/RouseBall/RB_Maclaurin.html (1049 words)

	Science Journal -- Summer 2000 -- Honoris Causa (part-1)
		Penrose is the Francis R. and Helen M. Pentz Distinguished Professor of Physics at Penn State and the Rouse Ball Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Oxford University in England.
		Penrose is a foreign associate of the National Academy of Sciences; a Fellow of the British Royal Society, the University College in London, and Wadham College at Oxford University; and an Honorary Fellow of St.
		Nigel Higson, distinguished professor of Mathematics, is the winner of the C. Noll Award for Excellence in Teaching.
	www.science.psu.edu /journal/Sum2000/Honor1-Sum2000.htm (2831 words)

	Amazon.com: The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics (Popular Science): Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		One is left with the firm impression that the Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at Oxford University is a very, very smart chap, and that one really ought to see that what ever he says goes.
		Mathematical statements (such as "1+1=2") are necessarily true for all time and all universes so, ipso facto, they can't - by themselves - tell us anything about any particular universe.
		However, his discussion of mathematical insight is indirectly concerned with one of the 'non-sensory qualia' and thus touches on the problem of the subjective/objective dichotomy.
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		It is reasonable to hold that mathematical knowledge has this character.) So far, however, what Penrose has shown is quite compatible with the claim that a computer program could in principle successfully simulate our mathematical capacities.
		Penrose sketches the proof that any program for generating theorems of mathematics is equivalent to a formal system, but the proof involves describing the entire program in a formal language.
		Penrose worries that if we say that our (idealized) mathematical output is not describable as the output of a machine whose program we could {\it know}, then we are saying that something about us (``consciousness'') is ``scientifically inexplicable'', but this is not a reasonable worry.
	www.ams.org /journals/bull/pre-1996-data/199507/199507015.tex.html (1812 words)

	The Aethism of the Gaps
		Roger Penrose, the Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at Oxford, has gone a long way toward burying materialism, which is remarkable since Penrose is apparently a materialist himself.
		There are, he argues, mathematically demonstrable limitations to the kinds of things computers can do, and these limitations are not shared by the human mind.
		This mathematical Platonism is not necessarily incongruous with Penrose's materialism, since modern physics understands the physical universe in mathematical terms.
	www.leaderu.com /ftissues/ft9511/articles/revessay.html (3018 words)

	Gergen Lecturers, Duke Mathematics Dept. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Walter Rudin (Professor of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin)
		Dennis Hejhal (Professor of Mathematics, University of Minnesota)
		Blaine Lawson (Professor of Mathematics, SUNY at Stony Brook)
	www.math.duke.edu /info/speakers.html (170 words)

	Science Journal, Spring 1999 -- Honoris Causa
		He was awarded the distinction of the Evan Pugh Professor title in 1986.Ý Castleman is both a researcher and a member of the advisory board for the Consortium for Nanostructured Materials, and is both a researcher and member of the executive committee of the Penn State Center for Materials Physics.
		Vincent Crespi, assistant professor of physics; James Marden, assistant professor of biology; Ken Ono, assistant professor of mathematics; and John Yeazell, assistant professor of physics, have received Faculty Early Career Development Awards from the National Science Foundation, which the agency describes as its highest award for new faculty.
		Paul Sokol, professor of physics, Nitin Samarth, assistant professor of physics, Renee Diehl, associate professor of physics, and James Beatty, associate professor of physics and astrophysics, have been recognized by the Office of the Provost for their work in collaborative instructional and curricular innovation.
	www.science.psu.edu /journal/Spring_1999/HonorSpr-1999.htm (8103 words)

	Roger Penrose Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		But he has also made significant contributions to mathematical physics, including the definitive proof that Einstein's equations of general relativity imply that a massive star will collapse to form a singularity.
		In 1945 the Penroses returned to England and Roger's father was appointed Professor of Human Genetics at University College London; Roger attended University College School and later gained his B.Sc.
		After fellowships and lectureships in various London Colleges, Cambridge and Princeton, Roger Penrose became Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford in 1973, a post he holds to this day.
	www.321books.co.uk /biography/penrose-roger.htm (227 words)

	Reporter 18/2/98: Elections, appointments, reappointments, and grant of title
		Professor G. Amaratunga, Ph.D., CHU, B.Sc., Wales, Professor in Electrical Engineering, University of Liverpool, elected Professor of Engineering 1966 (Grace 5 of 1 December 1965) from 1 September 1998.
		Professor B. Cheffins, whose election into the S. Berwin Professorship of Corporate Law was announced in Reporter 1996-97, p.
		Professor R. Helmholz, Ruth Wyatt Rosenson Professor of Law, Washington University, has been elected Arthur Goodhart Visiting Professor in Legal Science from 1 October 2000 to 30 September 2001.
	www.admin.cam.ac.uk /reporter/1997-8/weekly/5729/9.html (456 words)

	Gergen Mathematics Lectures at Duke (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		From 1930 to 1933 he was a Benjamin Pierce Instructor at Harvard, and from 1933 to 1936 he was an assistant professor at the University of Rochester.
		He came as an associate professor to Duke in 1936, was promoted to professor in 1939, and served as chairman of the department from 1937 to July 1966, when he resigned the chairmanship owing to illness (esophagal cancer).
		Professor Gergen was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi.
	www.math.duke.edu /info/gergen.html (329 words)

	The Third Culture - Chapter 14
		ROGER PENROSE is a mathematical physicist; Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford; author of Techniques of Differential Topology in Relativity (1972), Spinors and Space- time, with W. Rindler, 2 vols.
		In this toy model, the future would be mathematically fixed; however, a computer could not tell you what this future is. I'm not saying that this is the way the laws of physics work at some level.
		The problems there are mainly mathematical; the theory they're dealing with is Einstein's theory of general relativity, which has been unchanged at the fundamental level since Einstein first invented it, in 1916.
	www.edge.org /documents/ThirdCulture/v-Ch.14.html (7040 words)

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