{"id":461,"date":"2019-04-16T12:45:59","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T12:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianbell.me\/?p=461"},"modified":"2019-04-16T12:46:02","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T12:46:02","slug":"the-london-mathematical-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/adrianbell.me\/?p=461","title":{"rendered":"The London Mathematical Society"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In November '18, I decided to join the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lms.ac.uk\/\">London Mathematical Society<\/a> (LMS). Last month I attended a meeting there in Russell Square in Central London which involved a couple of lectures and a \"swearing in\" of new members. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a part of the swearing in, new members have the opportunity to sign the LMS Member's Book. Interesting thing about this is it dates back to 1865(!). So after signing it, I flicked back the pages to find the signatures of both Arthur Cayley on June 19th 1865:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/adrianbell.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Screen-Shot-2019-04-16-at-13.42.32-1024x360.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-468\" srcset=\"http:\/\/adrianbell.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Screen-Shot-2019-04-16-at-13.42.32-1024x360.png 1024w, http:\/\/adrianbell.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Screen-Shot-2019-04-16-at-13.42.32-300x106.png 300w, http:\/\/adrianbell.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Screen-Shot-2019-04-16-at-13.42.32-768x270.png 768w, http:\/\/adrianbell.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Screen-Shot-2019-04-16-at-13.42.32.png 1222w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>and James Clerk Maxwell on April 25th 1867:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/adrianbell.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/maxwell-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-466\" srcset=\"http:\/\/adrianbell.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/maxwell-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/adrianbell.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/maxwell-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/adrianbell.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/maxwell-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In November '18, I decided to join the London Mathematical Society (LMS). Last month I attended a meeting there in Russell Square in Central London which involved a couple of lectures and a \"swearing in\" of new members. As a part of the swearing in, new members have the opportunity to sign the LMS Member's &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/adrianbell.me\/?p=461\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The London Mathematical Society<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-maths"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/adrianbell.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/adrianbell.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/adrianbell.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adrianbell.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adrianbell.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=461"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/adrianbell.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":469,"href":"http:\/\/adrianbell.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions\/469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/adrianbell.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adrianbell.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adrianbell.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}