Janus: Catalogue of the papers and correspondence of HAROLD DAVENPORT FRS; (1907

Trinity/DAVT/C.1 - C.193 contains:
C.1-C.4	CAMBRIDGE, 1930s
C.5-C.12	MANCHESTER, 1937-41
C.13-C.16	UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF NORTH WALES, BANGOR, 1941-45
C.17-C.51	UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON, 1945-58
C.52-C.97	CAMBRIDGE, 1958-69
C.98-C.129	LECTURES ABROAD
C.130-C.158	SOCIETIES, CONFERENCES, ETC.
C.159-C.193	MISCELLANEOUS AND UNDATED LECTURES

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Catalogue of the papers and correspondence of HAROLD DAVENPORT FRS; (1907 - 1969)

Title	SOCIETIES, CONFERENCES, ETC.
Reference	C.130-C.158

Content and context

The material here consists mainly of drafts for lectures given at conferences and to societies, including undergraduate clubs. It does not however present a complete record of Davenport's many visits and conferences.

C.152-C.156 contain material which cannot be accurately dated, and C.157, C.158 consist of invitations and programmes. Of particular interest is C.131, Davenport's address given at the prize day of his old school.

Trinity/DAVT/C.130-C.158 contains:

C.130

`La géometrie des nombres', Brussels, 1946. 19pp. duplicated typescript draft (in French); two programmes of lectures, April-May 1946, of Institut des Hautes Études de Belgique.

1946

C.131

Address given at Accrington Grammar School prize day, 26 March 1947. 8pp. ms. draft and 1p. notes; letter from headmaster, 20 March 1947, re arrangements; programme.

1947

C.132

`Some American Impressions'. Presidential address to the Mathematical and Physical Society, University College, London, 29 October 1948. 11pp. typescript draft.

1948

C.133

`G.H. Hardy', 1948 and n.d. 4pp. untitled ms. draft of a lecture, delivered in 1948. 7pp. ms. draft and notes for a talk to an unnamed society re Hardy's Collected Papers, n.d. Davenport was on the London Mathematical Society committee set up to edit Hardy's papers, and did much work for it. 11pp. ms. draft and notes, partially paginated, for a talk to an unnamed undergraduate society re Hardy's career and publications, n.d.

c1948

C.134

`G.H. Hardy', 1948 and n.d. Reprint of E.C. Titchmarsh's L.M.S. memoir of G.H. Hardy, with 1p. ms. notes by Davenport. 3pp. photocopy of Hardy's 1914 paper on Riemann functions.

c1948

C.135

`A great Oxford mathematician'. (H.J.S. Smith), Invariant Society, Oxford, 3 May 1950. 11pp. typescript draft with ms. corrections.

1950

C.136

`Diophantine Approximation'. 14pp. ms. draft of version delivered to British Mathematical Colloquium, Greenwich, July 1952.

1952–1954

C.137

`Diophantine Approximation'. 7pp. ms. draft of version delivered to Oxford Mathematical Society, 3 March 1954. 4pp. ms. draft and notes re Diophantine approximation. 4pp. ms. draft re lattice points.

1952–1954

C.138

Rough outline of `informal' talk at Queen Mary College, London. 2pp. ms. only.

4 February 1954

C.139

`Problemès d'empilement et de recouvrement', Rome 1955. 41pp. typescript draft for lecture (in French).

1955

C.140

`Indefinite quadratic forms in many variables'. St. Andrews, September 1956. 4pp. ms. draft for lecture or talk.

1956

C 141

`Some recent work'. Lecture to the theory of numbers group at the British Mathematical Colloquium, Nottingham. 7pp. typescript draft and 4pp. miscellaneous ms. notes and calculations found with it.

11 September 1957

C.142

Lectures and addresses. `Analytical number theory', ?1958. 4pp. ms. notes also headed `Edinburgh ¼ hour', for short talk at International Congress of Mathematics, August 1958. `The nature of mathematics', 1958. 8pp. ms. draft for talk given to the Trinity Mathematical Society, 20 November 1958.

c1958

C.143

`Equations in integers'. New Pythagoreans, 21 January 1959. 6pp. ms. draft; ms. notes and calculations.

1959

C.144

Speech. Given at dinner of Mathematical and Physical Society, University College London, 5 March 1959. 5pp. ms. notes.

1959

C.145

`Les équations diophantiennes à plusieurs variables' and `Les inégalités diophantiennes à plusieurs variables', lectures delivered at the Faculté des Sciences, Université de Paris, 6 and 7 April 1959. Duplicated typescript drafts; letter of thanks from P. Dubreil, 20 July 1959.

1959

C.146

`Dirichlet'. 4pp. and 8pp. ms. drafts for talk given in the centenary year of Dirichlet's death; 1p. ms. notes made by Davenport from talk given by Kummer in 1860.

1959

C.147

`Diophantine approximation'. Lecture delivered at the British Mathematical Colloquium, Southampton. 15pp. ms. draft.

13 April 1962

C.148

Copy of report by Davenport on a visit to Poland, 18-30 March 1963, under arrangements for exchange visits of scientists between Polish Academy of Sciences and Royal Society. Davenport gave 3 lectures during his visit and worked with A. Schinzel. Conference at Oberwolfach, 1-5 April 1963 (after Polish visit). 8pp. duplicated `Tagungsbericht'. See p.4 for abstract of Davenport's lecture on Diophantine equations in many variables'.

1963

C.149

`Irrational numbers'. Lecture to the Tensor Club. 14pp. ms. draft and calculations.

6 February 1964

C.150

Lectures and addresses. `Report on visit to the University of Vienna', 6-19 April 1964. 1p. ms. draft. `Diophantische Gleichungen in mehreren Unbekannten', 15 April 1964, given during visit to Vienna. 2 ms. drafts, 6pp. and 14pp., with first page only of an early draft, all in German.

1964

C.151

`Quelques découvertes récentes dans la théorie des nombres', lecture given at the Université de Grenoble, 16 June 1967. Bound copy of lecture; 3pp. ms. notes entitled `Brighton', found with it.

1967

C.152

Undated lectures for societies or conferences. `Packing and covering by spheres'. 2 ms. drafts, both 7pp., of a talk, one labelled `copies Harvard lecture'. `Problems of packing and covering'. 9pp. typescript draft, perhaps a later version related to Bibliog. 160.

C.153

Undated lectures for societies or conferences. `Simultaneous Diophantine approximation'. 2 ms. drafts, both 4pp. 5pp. typescript draft, with ms. corrections, of `Congress lecture'.

C.154

Undated lectures for societies or conferences. `Kongruenzen vom additiven Typ'. 12pp. ms. draft.

C.155

Undated lectures for societies or conferences. `The large sieve inequality'. 12pp. ms. draft of `Lecture delivered somewhere'.

C.156

Undated lectures for societies or conferences. `Un problème d'approximation Diophantienne'. 12pp. ms. draft.

C.157

Invitations and programmes. Announcements of 2 London Mathematical Society lectures delivered by Davenport, 1946 and 1968. Programme of the Mathematical Association, 1949-50.

1946–1968

C.158

Invitations and programmes. Letter inviting Davenport to session of International Congress of Mathematicians, 18 June 1949. Programme of conference at Brussels, 1955. Programme of conference at Rome, 1968.

1949–1968