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British physiologist, educator and recreational
mathematician, 1923-1989.
Educated at Wandsworth School, Royal Dental School
(London) and
University College London. Military service in World War
II in the
Sudan and Canal Zone. Taught and carried out research
in
physiology at UCL following World War II until retiring
in 1983 as
Reader Emeritus.
File consists of typescript and holograph manuscripts
of
mathematical calculations, proofs, notes, diagrams and
diary
entries; and coloured slides of tiling diagrams of
geometric
shapes in various combinations and sequences.
Mathematical
subjects include hexagonal tiling and prime numbers.
Titles on
binders containing manuscripts include Tile, Twinlock,
N-rep
presentations, Hex, Penrose pair, N roots, Re-ordering
of O-branch
sets and Pythagorean (Hex) numbers play.
Donated by Christian Ness in 1990.
Text in English.
No restrictions on access.
File level inventory available at repository.
Fonds is part of the Eugène Strens
Recreational
Mathematics Collection.
Acc 4633 (Strens)