British Mathematical Colloquium

This was held at Oxford: 12-14 April 1950.

The enrolment was 122.

Organisers were J H C Whitehead


Minutes of meetings, etc. are available at the links below


The plenary speakers were:

Cartwright, M L Some boundary value problems
Rees, D Cohomology in abstract algebra
Taylor, R Fibre bundles

The morning speakers were:

Hilton, P J The Hilbert problem for three dimensional groups
Mahler, K Valuation theory
Newman, M H A Topological groups
Northcott, D G An application of valuations to the theory of ideals
Scott, D B Valuation theory and birational geometry
Smithies, F Algebraic methods in analysis
Titchmarsh, E C An eigenfunction problem
Whitehead, J H C Fibre mappings