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The Work of a Local Branch

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

W.H.H. Hudson
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We meet to-day to inaugurate a London Branch of the Mathematical Association. This is a step in a process of evolution.

The Mathematical Association is a continuation of the Association for the Improvement of Geometrical Teaching, commonly known as the A.I.G.T., founded in 1870.

I did not join the Association till 1883, but some of its earliest reports are in my possession; to thrse I shall refer

It owed its existence to a profound wide-spread dissatisfaction with the lack of geometrical knowledge, and still more the absence of geometrical power, displayed by students who had passcd through the ordinary school course of Euclid.

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Research Article
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The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 8 , Issue 121 , January 1916 , pp. 215 - 219
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Copyright © The Mathematical Association 1916

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Page 215 note * 27th November, 1909.

Page 219 note * The Mathematical Society, 1717–1845. “Its habitat was Spitalfields, and I think most of its existence was passed in Crispin Street. It was originally a plain society, belonging to the studious artisan. The members met for discussion once a week; and I believe I am correct in saying that each man had his pipe, his pot and his problem.” De Morgan, , Budget of paradoxes, Vol.1. p.376. 2nd Edition, 1915.Google Scholar [W.J.G.]