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    The Professor of Geometry at Gresham College, London, gives free educational lectures to the general public. The college was founded for this purpose in...
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  • Sarah B. Hart (category Academics of Gresham College)
    As of 2025, she is the Acting Provost of Gresham College. She was previously the Gresham Professor of Geometry from 2020 to 2024, the first woman to hold...
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  • oldest chair of mathematics in Great Britain, after the Gresham Professor of Geometry at Gresham College and the Savilian Professor of Geometry at the University...
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    regarded this as "showing of tricks" rather than geometry, and instead appointed Henry Briggs, the Gresham Professor of Geometry, in 1619. Briggs took up...
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    1039962". Charity Commission for England and Wales. "Gresham Professor of Geometry". gresham.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 26 May 2011. Retrieved...
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    John D. Barrow (category Academics of Gresham College)
    mathematician. He served as Gresham Professor of Geometry at Gresham College from 2008 to 2011. Barrow was also a writer of popular science and an amateur...
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    Robin Wilson (mathematician) (category Academics of Gresham College)
    lecturer at Pembroke College, Oxford and, from 2004 to 2008, Gresham Professor of Geometry at Gresham College, London. On occasion, he teaches at Colorado College...
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    Alain Goriely (category Statutory Professors of the University of Oxford)
    lectures. In 2022, he was elected to the Royal Society, and Gresham Professor of Geometry at the Gresham College (London) in 2024. Born and raised in Brussels...
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    John Greaves (category Academics of Gresham College)
    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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  • Appointed Gresham Professor of Geometry, Gresham College, 28 April 2020, archived from the original on 2020-08-23 Cohn, Henry (2022). "The work of Maryna...
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  • Peter Turner (mathematician) (category Savilian Professors of Geometry)
    of Merton College, Oxford in 1607. He gave public lectures as professor of geometry at Gresham College, London from 1620 to 1630. He was an ally of William...
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    Harmer, historian Sarah B Hart, mathematician, first female Gresham Professor of Geometry Sahar Hashemi, entrepreneur Tin-Tin Ho, table tennis player...
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  • Andrew Tooke (category Fellows of the Royal Society)
    English scholar, headmaster of Charterhouse School, Gresham Professor of Geometry, Fellow of the Royal Society and translator of Tooke's Pantheon, a standard...
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  • Ralph Button (category Year of birth missing)
    clergyman, Gresham Professor of Geometry, canon of Christ Church, Oxford under the Commonwealth, and later a nonconformist schoolmaster. He was the son of Robert...
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  • Arthur Dacres (category Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians)
    English physician and academic, briefly Gresham Professor of Geometry. He was sixth son of Sir Thomas Dacres, knight, of Cheshunt, and was born in that parish...
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  • Christopher Budd (mathematician) (category Academics of Gresham College)
    industry. He is currently Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Bath, and was Professor of Geometry at Gresham College from 2016 to 2020...
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  • Gresham Professor of Geometry, student at St John's College 1979-1983 Alan Baker, fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge 1964- H. F. Baker, fellow of St...
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    Raymond Flood (mathematician) (category Academics of Gresham College)
    Fellow and a member of the Continuing Education Department at Kellogg College, Oxford, and has been a Professor of Geometry at Gresham College. Flood achieved...
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  • George Newland (category Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies)
    of Gatton, Surrey, was a British academic and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1738 to 1749. He was Gresham Professor of Geometry...
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    Robert Hooke (category Academics of Gresham College)
    from 1662, he was its first Curator of Experiments. From 1665 to 1703, he was also Professor of Geometry at Gresham College. Hooke began his scientific...
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    Elderton Julia Bell Gresham Professor of Geometry § List of Gresham Professors of Geometry Kikuchi Dairoku, a close friend and contemporary of Karl Pearson at...
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  • Henry Briggs (mathematician) (category Savilian Professors of Geometry)
    collaborating with Edward Wright. In 1596, he became first professor of geometry in the recently founded Gresham College, London, where he also taught astronomy...
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  • (1673–1732), headmaster of Charterhouse (1728–1732), Gresham Professor of Geometry, Fellow of the Royal Society and translator of Tooke's Pantheon George...
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  • He once held the position of Gresham Professor of Astronomy as well as Gresham Professor of Geometry. Henri Fontaine (1924–2020): French Roman Catholic...
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    Sir Thomas Gresham the Elder (/ˈɡrɛʃəm/; c. 1519 – 21 November 1579) was an English merchant and financier who acted on behalf of King Edward VI (1547–1553)...
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    Flood, former Gresham Professor of Geometry at Gresham College Alexandra Freeman, Baroness Freeman of Steventon, Executive Director of the Winton Centre...
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    Van Mildert College, Durham (category Colleges of Durham University)
    the Archbishop of Canterbury, Michael Ramsey, who had previously served as Van Mildert Professor of Divinity at Durham and was a friend of Arthur Prowse...
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  • Barrow FRS (Van Mildert) – Gresham Professor of Geometry (2008–2011); Templeton Prize (2006) Brian J. Boyle (Grad Soc) – Director of the Australian Astronomical...
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    The Gresham College group was a loose collection of scientists in England of the 1640s and 1650s, a precursor to the Royal Society of London. Within a...
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    Isaac Barrow (category Academics of Gresham College)
    to the Regius Professorship of Greek at the University of Cambridge. In 1662, he was made professor of geometry at Gresham College, and in 1663 was selected...
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