To Talk of Many Things
Manchester University Press, 2004
Contents
- Passion for numbers
- Families
- To school: the onset of deafness
- Boarding school—St Andrews
- A year on ice
- Oxford
- Broome House
- Austrian interlude
- Work and some play
- The war years
- Hearing at last
- New horizons
- Hodge Close
- The comprehensive dilemma
- Everything in the name: the expansion of further and higher education
- Negotiating: the local authority associations
- Lancaster: returning to teaching
- Music, music, music: the Royal Northern College of Music
- USSR (1963)
- USA (1965)
- Japan (1970)
- Greater Manchester
- Finding the money: the Layfield Committee
- Rescued by computer: St. John Ambulance
- Lord Mayor, 1975–76
- Bubbles and bees: the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, 1964–
- Robert
- Stars
- The magic square saga
- Reflections on problem-solving
Epilogue
Appendix: three parlour tricks
(i) The false penny
(ii) Magic card squares
(iii) Dürer's square
Honours and appointments