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- 1935-1953 (Creation)
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Includes: correspondence with G H Hardy, J A Todd, L Roth and Professor Wiener (with notes for a joint paper, 1953); reprints and typescripts of papers by Bronowski comprising 'Some Uses of Statistics in the Building Industry' (1949), 'The Base for Algebraic Curves on an Algebraic Surface' (1947), 'On Cubic Primals with Many Nodes' (1947), 'Plastic Properties of Coking Coals' (1953), 'An Inequality Relating Means' (1944), 'the Figure of Six Points in Space of Four Dimensions' (1942), 'The Variance of the Measure of a Two-Dimensional Random Set' with J Neyman (1945), 'The Fixed part of the Canonical System' (1942), 'On Triple Planes (III)' (1942) and 'Sketch of the Modern Theory of Curves (notes for a paper) read to Hull Mathematical Club' (1936).
Also includes handwritten notes by Bronowski, reprint of 'Some Manifolds Generated by Normal Rational Curves' by Robert Jones (1943), examination papers written by Bronowski for the University of London (1942), reprint of 'The variance of the overlap of geometrical figures with reference to a bombing problem' by F Garwood (1947) and a mathematical paper in Italian on algebraic surfaces (1935).
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Many papers were published in the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, the Journal of the London Mathematical Society, Nature, the Quarterly Journal of Mathematics, Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, and the Annals of Mathematical Statistics.