Piers bursill hall biography of michael

It’s the subject that put Cambridge on the map.

First, Dr Piers Bursill-Hall (DPMMS,.

Below you'll find details of all TMS talks from onwards.

The title page of the first of these papers, by Maurice Chiodo and Piers Bursill-Hall, is reproduced above.

PATRICK BROOKS chats to the creator of a blog full of Cambridge students' private dreams, tragedies and darkest secrets.

Maurice Chiodo and Piers Bursill-Hall have assembled a stellar lineup in a remarkably short time.

Its alumni include Isaac Newton, Bertrand Russell and Steven Hawking — and now, some students think it’s lost its edge.

The dispute turns on what the Maths course should include. To the Faculty, the answer seems simple: maths alone.

But to these students, it’s more: it’s history and ethics.

The controversy comes as the Maths Department removed talks on the history of maths from its lecture list for this term; but in defiance of the decision, a group of Maths students have formed a society to keep learning with their former don.

Dr Piers Bursill-Hall, had been giving lectures on the history of maths for over 40 years but, without consultation, found his name removed from the Department’s lecture list.

In , following Bursill-Hall’s retirement two years earlier, his lectures went from being classed as “non-examinable,” to “not organised by the faculty” — a move widely seen as th