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    position of Savilian Professor of Geometry was established at the University of Oxford in 1619. It was founded (at the same time as the Savilian Professorship...
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    John Wallis (category Savilian Professors of Geometry)
    November 1648, the Savilian Professors of Geometry and Astronomy. In 1649 Wallis was appointed as Savilian Professor of Geometry. Wallis seems to have...
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    position of Savilian Professor of Astronomy was established at the University of Oxford in 1619. It was founded (at the same time as the Savilian Professorship...
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  • Joseph Betts (category Savilian Professors of Geometry)
    mathematician. He held the Savilian Chair of Geometry at the University of Oxford in 1765. Betts was an undergraduate and Fellow of University College, Oxford...
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  • Peter Turner (mathematician) (category Savilian Professors of Geometry)
    Chancellor of the University of Oxford, working with Brian Twyne on a revision of the statutes. He held the Savilian Chair of Geometry at the University of Oxford...
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  • John Smith (anatomist and chemist) (category Savilian Professors of Geometry)
    and chemistry. Despite not being a mathematician, he held the Savilian chair of geometry from 1766 until his death in 1797. Beattie, James (1946), James...
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  • Abraham Robertson (category Savilian Professors of Geometry)
    He held the Savilian Chair of Geometry at the University of Oxford from 1797 to 1809. Robertson was born at Duns, Berwickshire, the son of Abraham Robertson...
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    Baden Powell (mathematician) (category Savilian Professors of Geometry)
    an English mathematician and Church of England priest. He held the Savilian Chair of Geometry at the University of Oxford from 1827 to 1860. Powell was...
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    King's Observatory (category History of the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames)
    mathematical historian and astronomer, and Savilian Chair of Geometry and Savilian Professor of Astronomy at the University of Oxford) and his elder sister. The...
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    Béla Bollobás (category Members of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
    year at Christ Church, Oxford, where Michael Atiyah held the Savilian Chair of Geometry, he vowed never to return to Hungary due to his disillusion with...
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    Warington Baden-Powell (category Fellows of the Royal Geographical Society)
    College Lane, Oxford; the son of Reverend Professor Baden Powell, who held the Savilian Chair of Geometry at the University of Oxford from 1827 to 1860. His...
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    G. H. Hardy (category Savilian Professors of Geometry)
    left Cambridge to take the Savilian Chair of Geometry (and thus become a Fellow of New College) at Oxford in the aftermath of the Bertrand Russell affair...
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    Richard Taylor (mathematician) (category Savilian Professors of Geometry)
    1995 to 1996 he held the Savilian chair of geometry at Oxford University and Fellow of New College, Oxford. He was a professor of mathematics at Harvard...
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    Henry Savile (Bible translator) (category Alumni of Brasenose College, Oxford)
    Warden of Merton College, Oxford, and Provost of Eton. He endowed the Savilian chairs of Astronomy and of Geometry at Oxford University, and was one of the...
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    Nigel Hitchin (category Savilian Professors of Geometry)
    University of Warwick and in 1994 the Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge. In 1997 he was appointed to the Savilian Chair of Geometry...
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  • seven was the Reverend Baden Powell, who held the Savilian chair of geometry at the University of Oxford. Referring to "Mr Darwin's masterly volume"...
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    Henry John Stephen Smith (category Savilian Professors of Geometry)
    status. In 1861, he was promoted to the Savilian Chair of Geometry at Oxford. In 1873, he was made the beneficiary of a fellowship at Corpus Christi College...
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  • (Christ Church) G.H. Hardy (Savilian Chair of Geometry) Stephen Hawking (University) Peter Hilton (The Queen's) Professor Univ of Birmingham, Cornell Univ...
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  • Ioan James (category Savilian Professors of Geometry)
    held the Savilian Chair of Geometry at the University of Oxford from 1970 to 1995. He is now a professor emeritus. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal...
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    George Baden-Powell (category Knights Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George)
    who held the Savilian Chair of Geometry at the University of Oxford from 1827 to 1860. His mother, Henrietta Grace, was the third wife of Baden Powell...
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    Stephen Peter Rigaud (category Savilian Professors of Geometry)
    1794 to 1810, held the Savilian Chair of Geometry at the University of Oxford from 1810 to 1827, and was Savilian Professor of Astronomy from 1827 to...
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    holder of this chair is Sir Andrew Wiles. The Savilian Professor of Geometry was created in 1619 by Sir Henry Savile, at a time when the successes of astronomy...
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    It was established in 1969 in honour of John Wallis, who was Savilian Professor of Geometry at Oxford from 1649 to 1703. 1969 to 1985: John Kingman 1985...
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    John Greaves (category Savilian Professors of Astronomy)
    made a survey of the Great Pyramid of Giza. He was Gresham Professor of Geometry at Gresham College, London, and Savilian professor of astronomy at Oxford...
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    David Gregory (mathematician) (category Savilian Professors of Astronomy)
    professor of mathematics at the University of Edinburgh, and later Savilian Professor of Astronomy at the University of Oxford, and a proponent of Isaac Newton's...
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    James Joseph Sylvester (category Savilian Professors of Geometry)
    he returned to England to take up the Savilian Professor of Geometry at Oxford University. He held this chair until his death, although in 1892 the university...
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    Professor of Mathematics Rupert Murdoch Professor of Language and Communication Savilian Professor of Astronomy Savilian Professor of Geometry Sedleian...
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    Cause of the Universal Deluge (1694) A synopsis of the astronomy of comets By Edmund Halley, Savilian Professor of Geometry, at Oxford; And Fellow of the...
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  • visitation of the University of Oxford was a political and religious purge taking place from 1647, for a number of years. Many Masters and Fellows of Colleges...
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    Michael Atiyah (category Savilian Professors of Geometry)
    University of Oxford, where he was a reader and professorial fellow at St Catherine's College (1961–1963). He became Savilian Professor of Geometry and a professorial...
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