The Professor of Geometry at Gresham College

Gresham College

Gresham College is an institution of higher learning located at Barnard's Inn Hall off Holborn in central London, England. It was founded in 1597 under the will of Sir Thomas Gresham and today it hosts over 140 free public lectures every year within the City of London.-History:Sir Thomas Gresham,...

, London, gives free educational lectures to the general public. The college was founded for this purpose in 1596 / 7, when it appointed seven professors; this has since increased to eight and in addition the college now has visiting professors.

The Professor of Geometry is always appointed by the City of London Corporation.

(Years given as, say, 1596 / 7 refer to Old Style and New Style dates

Old Style and New Style dates

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1	Henry Briggs Henry Briggs (mathematician) Henry Briggs was an English mathematician notable for changing the original logarithms invented by John Napier into common logarithms, which are sometimes known as Briggsian logarithms in his honour....	March 1596 / 97
2	Peter Turner	25 July 1620
3	John Greaves John Greaves John Greaves was an English mathematician, astronomer and antiquary.-Life:He was born in Colemore, near Alresford, Hampshire. He was the eldest son of John Greaves, rector of Colemore, and Sarah Greaves...	22 Feb 1630 / 31
4	Ralph Button Ralph Button Ralph Button was an English academic and clergyman, Gresham Professor of Geometry, canon of Christ Church, Oxford under the Commonwealth, and later a nonconformist schoolmaster.-Life:...	15 Nov 1643
5	Daniel Whistler Daniel Whistler -Life:The son of William Whistler of Elvington, Oxfordshire, he was born at Walthamstow in Essex in 1619. He was educated at the school of Thame, Oxfordshire, and entered Merton College, Oxford, in January 1639. He graduated B.A. in 1642. On 8 August 1642 he began the study of physic at the...	13 June 1648
6	Laurence Rooke	7 August 1657
7	Isaac Barrow Isaac Barrow Isaac Barrow was an English Christian theologian, and mathematician who is generally given credit for his early role in the development of infinitesimal calculus; in particular, for the discovery of the fundamental theorem of calculus. His work centered on the properties of the tangent; Barrow was...	16 July 1662
8	Arthur Dacres Arthur Dacres Arthur Dacres was an English physician and academic, briefly Gresham Professor of Geometry.-Life:He was sixth son of Sir Thomas Dacres, knight, of Cheshunt, and was born in that parish, where he was baptised on 18 April 1624. He entered Magdalene College, Cambridge, in December 1642, and graduated...	20 May 1664
9	Robert Hooke Robert Hooke Robert Hooke FRS was an English natural philosopher, architect and polymath.His adult life comprised three distinct periods: as a scientific inquirer lacking money; achieving great wealth and standing through his reputation for hard work and scrupulous honesty following the great fire of 1666, but...	20 March 1664 / 5
10	Andrew Tooke Andrew Tooke Andrew Tooke was an English scholar, headmaster of Charterhouse School, Gresham Professor of Geometry, Fellow of the Royal Society and translator of Tooke's Pantheon, a standard textbook for a century on Greek mythology.-Life:...	5 July 1704
11	Thomas Tomlinson	3 July 1729
12	George Newland	27 Jan 1731 / 2
13	William Roman	28 Nov 1749
14	Wilfred Clarke	28 August 1759
15	S Kittleby	5 March 1765
16	Samuel Birch	5 July 1808
17	Robert Pitt Edkins	22 July 1848
18	Benjamin Morgan Cowie	18 Dec 1854
19	Karl Pearson Karl Pearson Karl Pearson FRS was an influential English mathematician who has been credited for establishing the disciplineof mathematical statistics....	15 Dec 1890
20	William Henry Wagstaff	13 June 1894
1939–45 Lectures in abeyance
21	Louis Melville Milne-Thomson L. M. Milne-Thomson Louis Melville Milne-Thomson, CBE was an English applied mathematician who wrote several classic textbooks on applied mathematics, including The Calculus of Finite Differences, Theoretical Hydrodynamics, and Theoretical Aerodynamics. He is also known for developing several mathematical tables such...	29 May 1946
22	Thomas A A Broadbent	1956
23	Sir Bryan Thwaites	1969
24	Clive W. Kilmister Clive W. Kilmister Clive W. Kilmister was a British applied mathematician who specialized in the mathematical foundations of physics, especially quantum mechanics and relativity. He was one of the discoverers of the combinatorial hierarchy, along with A. F. Parker-Rhodes and E. W. Bastin...	1972
25	Sir Christopher Zeeman	1988
26	Ian Stewart Ian Stewart (mathematician) Ian Nicholas Stewart FRS is a professor of mathematics at the University of Warwick, England, and a widely known popular-science and science-fiction writer. He is the first recipient of the , awarded jointly by the LMS and the IMA for his work on promoting mathematics.-Biography:Stewart was born...	1994
27	Sir Roger Penrose Roger Penrose Sir Roger Penrose OM FRS is an English mathematical physicist and Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford and Emeritus Fellow of Wadham College...  FRS	1 Sept 1998
28	Harold Thimbleby Harold Thimbleby Harold W. Thimbleby is a British professor of computer science at Swansea University, Wales. He is known for his works on user interface design within the realm of human computer interaction.- Overview :...	1 Sept 2001
29	Robin Wilson Robin Wilson (mathematician) Robin James Wilson is a professor in the Department of Mathematics at the Open University, a Stipendiary Lecturer at Pembroke College, Oxford and, , Professor of Geometry at Gresham College, London, where he has also been a visiting professor...	1 Sept 2004
30	John D. Barrow John D. Barrow -External links:****** The Forum-Publications available on the Internet:************...	1 Sept 2008

External links

• '400 Years of Geometry at Gresham College', lecture by Robin Wilson
  Robin Wilson (mathematician)
  Robin James Wilson is a professor in the Department of Mathematics at the Open University, a Stipendiary Lecturer at Pembroke College, Oxford and, , Professor of Geometry at Gresham College, London, where he has also been a visiting professor...
  
   at Gresham College
  Gresham College
  Gresham College is an institution of higher learning located at Barnard's Inn Hall off Holborn in central London, England. It was founded in 1597 under the will of Sir Thomas Gresham and today it hosts over 140 free public lectures every year within the City of London.-History:Sir Thomas Gresham,...
  
  , 14 May 2008 (available for download as PDF, audio and video files)