The Professor of Geometry at Gresham College, London, gives free educational lectures to the general public. The college was founded for this purpose in 1597, when it created seven professorships; this was later increased to ten. Geometry is one of the original professorships as set out by the will of Thomas Gresham in 1575. The Professor of Geometry is appointed in partnership with the City of London Corporation.
List of Gresham Professors of Geometry Note, the notation used in dates given as, for example, "159" refer to the practice of dual dating dates between 1 January and 25 March. Name Started 1 Henry Briggs March 159 2 Peter Turner 25 July 1620 3 John Greaves 22 February 16 4 Ralph Button 15 November 1643 5 Daniel Whistler 13 June 1648 6 Laurence Rooke 7 August 1657 7 Isaac Barrow 16 July 1662 8 Arthur Dacres 20 May 1664 9 Robert Hooke 20 March 166 10 Andrew Tooke 5 July 1704 11 Thomas Tomlinson 3 July 1729 12 George Newland 27 Jan 173 13 William Roman 28 Nov 1749 14 Wilfred Clarke 28 August 1759 15 S. Kittleby 5 March 1765 16 Samuel Birch 5 July 1808 17 Robert Pitt Edkins 22 July 1848 18 Benjamin Morgan Cowie 18 Dec 1854 19 Karl Pearson 15 Dec 1890 20 William Henry Wagstaff 13 June 1894 1939–45 Lectures in abeyance 21 Louis Melville Milne-Thomson 29 May 1946 22 Thomas A. A. Broadbent 1956 23 Sir Bryan Thwaites 1969 24 Clive W. Kilmister 1972 25 Sir Christopher Zeeman 1988 26 Ian Stewart FRS 1994 27 Sir Roger Penrose FRS 1 Sept 1998 28 Harold Thimbleby 1 Sept 2001 29 Robin Wilson 1 Sept 2004 30 John D. Barrow 1 Sept 2008 31 Raymond Flood 2012 32 Chris Budd OBE 2016 33 Sarah Hart 202034Alain Goriely2024
References Gresham College old website, Internet Archive List of professors Gresham College website Profile of current professor and list of past professors
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External links '400 Years of Geometry at Gresham College', lecture by Robin Wilson at Gresham College, 14 May 2008 (available for download as PDF, audio and video files)
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