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The Development of the Teaching of Geometry in Germany
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[At the evening meeting of the Annual Meeting of the Mathematical Association on 5th January, 1937, Mr. A. W. Siddons took the chair, and in calling upon Professor Wolff for his paper said: Professor Georg Wolff came to England in 1913, and I believe I am right in saying that Harrow was the first school to which he came and that the last educational institute he was at in England was this Institute of Education in Southampton Row, where he talked with Sir Percy Nunn. When he was in England on that occasion Professor Wolff spent much of his time learning about the teaching of mathematics in this country. He has more recently been lecturing at Columbia University, New York.]
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