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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 November 2016
We meet to-day to inaugurate a London Branch of the Mathematical Association. This is a step in a process of evolution.
The Mathematical Association is a continuation of the Association for the Improvement of Geometrical Teaching, commonly known as the A.I.G.T., founded in 1870.
I did not join the Association till 1883, but some of its earliest reports are in my possession; to thrse I shall refer
It owed its existence to a profound wide-spread dissatisfaction with the lack of geometrical knowledge, and still more the absence of geometrical power, displayed by students who had passcd through the ordinary school course of Euclid.
Page 215 note * 27th November, 1909.
Page 219 note * The Mathematical Society, 1717–1845. “Its habitat was Spitalfields, and I think most of its existence was passed in Crispin Street. It was originally a plain society, belonging to the studious artisan. The members met for discussion once a week; and I believe I am correct in saying that each man had his pipe, his pot and his problem.” De Morgan, , Budget of paradoxes, Vol.1. p.376. 2nd Edition, 1915.Google Scholar [W.J.G.]