| Description | Present at the meeting: Professor S Zuckerman in the chair; Professor T A A Broadbent; Mr Brooke Crutchley; Mr G G Eastwood; Dr G M Findlay; Mr J Fletcher; Mr Rolf Unwin; Mr H Wheen; Mr H Riding
Matters discussed
1. Confirmed minutes of meeting on 10 May 1950
2. Matters arising from the minutes
2a Minute 2 of 28 March 1950, resolution (b) Sub committee for the Standardization of Mathematical Symbols
2b Minute 3 of 10 May 1950 The Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals
3. Survey of the shortage of comppsitors in relation to the printing of scientific matter
4. Printing progress reports
5. Date of next meeting ' to take place sometime in October '
' Recommendations to Council;
1. Minute 2a
i. That Council be invited to request the London Mathematical Society to co-operate with the Royal Society in the production of a pamphlet entitled ' The Preparation of Mathematical Tables' and that it be proposed to the London Mathematical Society that, as a first step, they arrange to prepare a revision of their present pamphlet ' Notes on the preparation of Mathematical Papers ' in such a way as to embody, as far as practicable, the reommended practice of the Oxford and Cambridge University Presses.
ii. That Council be invited to consider whcih standing commitee of the Society shold deal with the problem of the future standardization of mathematical symbols. ' |