This Friday past was the last day when we had a British Society for the History of Mathematics Council Meeting in Oxford. The president was an Oxford man, and so we met, four times a year, to discuss the things in his college (but not before the meal and a glass of wine each was consumed).

 

From January we have a new President, so the next meeting will be in Greenwich. And although I love Greenwich and London, and although this will mean much less traveling for me (and therefore less expense too!) I am SO sorry to leave Oxford!

 

And so jealous of all those people who live there day after day! But one good thing about it is that, on the majority of faces one can see on the streets of Oxford, you can see awareness of the privilege bestowed upon them, and that they are very happy and grateful about it all.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lunch at Pierre Victoire comes first, then the meeting around the corner

 

So am I - having to see my colleagues and the beautiful city of Oxford every three months or so over the past few years,  was definitely one of the most enjoyable English adventures I have lived through. In a way this adventure ends in November or early December when my chapter on the history of Balkan mathematics comes out in the Oxford Handbook on the History of Mathematics. Maybe something else begins there? Who knows. I am studying ancient Greek to be able to read original Euclid and see whether there really was so little mathematics in Byzantium as it seems to us now.