To Talk of Many Things: An Autobiography - Hardcover

Ollerenshaw, Dame Kathleen

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9780719069871: To Talk of Many Things: An Autobiography
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0719069874 ISBN 13: 9780719069871
Publisher: Manchester University Press, 2004

Synopsis


To Talk of Many Things is a remarkable account of a remarkable life. This story covers two world wars and the near sixty years that followed in a life dominated by mathematics and public service. Profoundly deaf from birth, Dame Kathleen has never seen her condition as an obstacle. She traveled widely through Europe between the wars, was a wartime don at Somerville College, Oxford, served on national education committees from the 1950s onwards, has been at various times on the Boards of the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester Polytechnic and Lancaster and Salford Universities and in the 1990s chased total eclipses of the sun around the world. A former Lord Mayor and Freeman of the City of Manchester, Dame Kathleen writes compellingly of her greatest enthusiasm--mathematics. The publication of her work on Magic Squares and her presidency of the Institute of Mathematics have been high points in a long and distinguished career.

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About the Author


Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw, now in her nineties, is continuing to write and research as well as pursuing her enthusiasm for astronomy.

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Publisher
Manchester University Press
Publication date
2004
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0719069874
ISBN 13 
9780719069871
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
208
Rating
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