Agnes Scott College

Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw

To Talk of Many Things
Manchester University Press, 2004

Autobiography Cover

Contents

  1. Passion for numbers
  2. Families
  3. To school: the onset of deafness
  4. Boarding school—St Andrews
  5. A year on ice
  6. Oxford
  7. Broome House
  8. Austrian interlude
  9. Work and some play
  10. The war years
  11. Hearing at last
  12. New horizons
  13. Hodge Close
  14. The comprehensive dilemma
  15. Everything in the name: the expansion of further and higher education
  16. Negotiating: the local authority associations
  17. Lancaster: returning to teaching
  18. Music, music, music: the Royal Northern College of Music
  19. USSR (1963)
  20. USA (1965)
  21. Japan (1970)
  22. Greater Manchester
  23. Finding the money: the Layfield Committee
  24. Rescued by computer: St. John Ambulance
  25. Lord Mayor, 1975–76
  26. Bubbles and bees: the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, 1964–
  27. Robert
  28. Stars
  29. The magic square saga
  30. Reflections on problem-solving
    Epilogue
Appendix: three parlour tricks
(i) The false penny
(ii) Magic card squares
(iii) Dürer's square
Honours and appointments