Recollections and reflections

✍ Scribed by George G. Hall

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 205 KB
• Volume: 74
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0020-7608
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-461x(1999)74:5<439::aid-qua2>3.0.co;2-h

✦ Synopsis

Most of my primary schooling was in Mountpottinger Public Elementary School, in the east side of Belfast, a school now closed. It had a high reputation for copperplate writing and a very strict discipline. While affected permanently by both of these, my most exciting memory of this period was our introduction to Euclid whose first propositions we had to learn by rote.

From there I went to Regent House School, in Newtownards. There I came under the influence of many good teachers and found myself attracted to mathematics and science, though I was also learning both Latin and Greek. I then