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December 2005 THE LONDON MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY NEWSLETTER No. 343 December 2005 Forthcoming COUNCIL DIARY the budget for the approval of 14 October 2005 Council in June as usual. Society Factoring largely into the Meetings Being a relative newcomer to future direction of the Society the LMS Council, I am on dan- will be the outcome of the 2006 gerous ground speaking of gen- Framework Studies Initiative Friday 10 February eralities, but it seems that at assessing the pros and cons of a London each meeting, amongst the merging of the IMA and LMS. G. Segal many and varied items for dis- Members may have taken U. Tillmann cussion, one or two have a ten- advantage of the various means (Mary Cartwright dency to recur throughout the for expressing their views on Lecture) day; their relevance to many this debate, and all written different areas make them per- comments will be circulated to 1 Monday 15 May vasive and the subject of lively Council members prior to the Leicester discussion. November meeting where fur- Midlands Regional At the October meeting such ther discussion will take place. Meeting a theme was the need for a There were, of course, many M. Bridson recognised procedure for the other topics covered at the long A. Zelevinsky Society to develop and monitor October Council meeting. The a long-term strategic policy on numerous issues of LMS business Friday 16 June the relative priority of its vari- that require Council attention London ous activities. The consensus create a packed agenda. Yu Manin was that Council would agree I can mention just a few of (Hardy Lecture) on the direction for the Society these, and perhaps the first to take over the next few years, should be the suggestion that Friday 3 July and it would be ensured that more authority be delegated to Leeds the allocation of funds was rep- the various committees to make Northern Regional resentative of these aims. As decisions following the general Meeting these priorities are likely to principles agreed by Council. In U. Haagerup change over time, and to give this way every item would not N. Kalton the Society the ability to adapt need to be approved at the to changing circumstances, the Council meetings. This issue will Friday 17 November mechanism to do this is to intro- be discussed further, but it seems London duce a pre-budget discussion at that something in this direction Annual General the March Council meeting to is necessary for a modern Society Meeting review priorities for the avail- that is active on so many fronts – able funds. This would affect it's either that or cancel even the the budget settlement by the short lunch break during which Finance and General Purposes Council members dash down- Committee, who would submit stairs for a bite to eat before THE LONDON MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY NEWSLETTER No. 343 December 2005 being herded back to the meeting room still MATHEMATICS NIGHT chewing their slice of melon. On Tuesday evening 6 December BBC4 TV Another issue touched upon, and which will celebrates mathematics and the beauty of be a subject of further discussion, is that of the numbers by showing a series of films: retrodigitization of the archive of the Bulletin, 21:05 Go Forth and Multiply Ancient Journal and Proceedings of the LMS – materi- Ethiopian number system LONDON MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY al dating back to 1865. This will be an impres- 21.10 Music of the Primes Marcus Du Sautoy sive resource and the Council will continue to 22.10 Phi's the Limit: The Golden Ratio debate on how to distribute it, either with cur- 22.15 Breaking the Code Alan Turing rent journal subscriptions or as part of the dig- 23.45 The Mathematical Art of MC Escher MARY CARTWRIGHT LECTURE ital library of Oxford University Press. 23.50 Horizon: Fermat's Last Theorem In a pleasant break from the discussions over Andrew Wiles the more contentious issues, Council decided 24.40 Music of the Primes (repeat) Friday 10 February 2006 unanimously to give £2000 to the World Federation of National Mathematics LMS SUBSCRIPTION 2005-06 Competitions to support participants from Chemistry Auditorium, Christopher Ingold Building, Eastern Europe and Africa to attend their The Society is appreciative of those members University College London, 20 Gordon Street, workshop in Cambridge next July. Most of us who have paid their 2005-06 subscriptions. 2 have seen first-hand how mathematics compe- May we remind those who have not yet paid, London WC1 3 titions stimulate and encourage students who that subscriptions were due on 1 November will grow up to be the next generation of 2005. Prompt payment ensures continuity of mathematicians and this grant will help ensure publications and avoids the need for time- 4.15 pm Graeme Segal (Oxford University) that the Cambridge meeting is attended by consuming reminders. If you have misplaced some of the most experienced competition your renewal of subscription form (enclosed 5.15 pm Tea organisers, as well as those from countries with your October Newsletter) contact the where competitions are still in their infancy. LMS office (email: [email protected]; 5.45 pm Mary Cartwright Lecture Nina C. Snaith tel: 020 7637 3686; fax: 020 7323 3655). Ulrike Tillmann (Oxford University) LMS Newsletter A reception will be held at De Morgan House at 7.00 pm General Editor: Dr D.R.J. Chillingworth ([email protected]) with a dinner afterwards. For further details contact Reports Editor: Dr S.A. Huggett ([email protected]) Susan Oakes ([email protected]). Reviews Editor: Professor M.P.F. du Sautoy ([email protected]) Administrative Editor: Miss S.M. Oakes ([email protected]) There are limited funds available to contribute to the Editorial office address: London Mathematical Society, De Morgan House, 57-58 Russell Square, London WC1B 4HS (tel: 020 7637 3686; fax: 020 7323 3655; travel expenses of Society members or research students email: [email protected], web: www.lms.ac.uk) to attend the Society meeting. Requests for support, Designed by CHP Design (tel: 020 7240 0466, email: [email protected], web:www.chpdesign.com) including an estimate of costs, may be addressed to Publication dates and deadlines: published monthly, except August. Items and advertisements by first day of the month prior to publication. Isabelle Robinson at the Society ([email protected]). Information in the Newsletter is free to be used elsewhere unless otherwise stated; attribution is requested when reproducing whole articles. The LMS cannot accept responsibility for the accuracy of information in the Newsletter. Views expressed do not necessarily represent the views or policy of the London Mathematical Society. Charity registration number: 252660. THE LONDON MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY NEWSLETTER No. 343 December 2005 ALFRED GOLDIE tial applications of the theorem were made by Goldie and his students, whilst many Professor Alfred Goldie, who was elected a doctoral theses and publications by member of the London Mathematical researchers in other parts of the world had Society on 25 April 1949, died on 8 October their origins in his work. 2005. Born in 1920, Alfred Goldie attended With Professor Goldie’s example and Wolverhampton Grammar School before guidance, the Department of Pure being awarded a State Scholarship and an Mathematics at Leeds achieved a very con- Open Major Scholarship at St John’s siderable reputation nationally and inter- College, Cambridge, to read Mathematics. nationally for the quality and calibre of its He was awarded a First in Part II of the research. A most successful Head of Mathematical Tripos in 1941, then leaving Department from 1970 to 1972, and Cambridge for war work and receiving his Chairman of the School of Mathematics BA degree in 1942. from 1976 to 1979, Professor Goldie also In 1946 Goldie entered academic life as held a number of visiting appointments in an assistant lecturer at the University of the USA, Canada and Europe. He was a Nottingham. He took up a lectureship in strong believer in the stimulus of interna- Pure Mathematics at King’s College, tional collaboration and he and colleagues 4 Newcastle in 1948, becoming Senior in the Department, including John 5 Lecturer in 1958 and Reader in Algebra in McConnell, Christopher Robson and Toby 1960. Stafford (the first two of whom had been In 1963 Professor Goldie was appointed his research students), enjoyed fruitful to the second Chair in Pure Mathematics at interactions with a series of distinguished Leeds, with a specific brief to foster academic visitors to Leeds. Alfred Goldie research and postgraduate teaching. He was awarded the prestigious Senior Berwick had already established an international Prize of the London Mathematical Society reputation as an algebraist, particularly in in 1970, and served on the Council of the the theory of rings. His early research had Society and as its Vice-President from 1978 been concerned with a study of general to 1980. A man of vivid personality and algebraic systems, but in the early 1950s his strong opinions, he was a tireless advocate interests switched to ring theory and the of the need for proper resources to sustain new ideas that had recently been intro- the international quality of mathematics duced by the then leading authority in this and the other sciences in the UK. field, Nathan Jacobson of Yale University. Professor Goldie retired in 1986, the occa- Goldie initially collaborated with his col- sion being marked by an international sym- league F.F. Bonsall in the successful applica- posium in Leeds. In the words of the Senate tion of Jacobson’s work to the study of resolution adopted on his retirement ‘at Banach algebras, their 1954 paper this symposium the extent of his fame, and ‘Annihilator Algebras’ in the Proceedings of the affection and admiration felt for him, the LMS producing considerable interest.
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