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- March 1942-January 1950 (Creation)
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1 file
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This file was added from a second accession in 2014.
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Comprises: letters of application or draft applications and letters from referees for a Fellowship and Tutorship in Mathematics at Jesus College Oxford, Chair of Mathematics at Queen Mary College in the University of London (1948), and Readership in Statistics at the University of Leeds (1946); a typescript of Bronowski's paper 'The Base for Algebraic Curves on an Algebraic Surface' with a letter from the 'Annals of Mathematics' declining to publish it; a typescript of Bronowski's paper 'On Cubic Primals With Many Nodes' with a receipt from the Claredon Press Oxford (1947); correspondence with L Roth (Imperial College of Science) on mathematical matters; letters to [John] Todd on Todd's comments on Bronowski's paper 'Curves whose grade is not positive in the theory of the base'; and a letter from G H Hardy (Trinity College, Cambridge) on a paper by Bronowski.
Also includes: copies of exam papers in statistics and geometry from the University of London written by Bronowski and others (1942, 1947 and 1948); notes on a 'Maths Review' (1949); a reprint of 'On Triple Planes (II)' by Bronowski with a page of notes in German; a reprint of 'The Variance of the Measure of a Two-Dimensional Random Set' by Bronowski with a handwritten note inside; a reprint of 'The Variance of the Overlap of Geometrical Figures with reference to a Bombing Problem' by F Garwood (1947) which referenced a paper by Bronowski and Neyman; and a leaflet on "Marks used in the Correction of Proofs of Mathematics" annotated by Bronowski.