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Author: Francis Michael Burrows
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.20cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.608kg
ISBN: 9781722062835
ISBN 10: 1722062835
Pages: 328
Publication Date: 08 August 2018
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR Francis Michael Burrows, M.Sc.(Cranfield)., Ph.D.(Cantab). Whitworth Fellow, Honorary College Fellow of the University College of North Wales. Education: St John's College Choir School, Cambridge 1942-45. Chorister St John's College Chapel 1942-46. Cambridgeshire Technical College and School of Art 1945- 47. Full Engineering Workshop Craft Apprenticeship at the Cambridge University Engineering Laboratory 1947-53. Apprentice Prizes and Technical State Scholarship 1953. M.Sc. in Aerodynamics, College of Aeronautics Cranfield 1955; Wh. F. (Whitworth Fellow 1956); Ph. D in Aeronautics, St John's College, Cambridge 1962. Work experience: Flight Test Department at Handley Page Ltd, Radlett, 1954; Flight Research at the Department of Aerophysics, Mississippi State College 1957; Lectures in Aerodynamics at Hatfield College of Technology 1957-58: to the R.A.F. for the Cambridge University Board of Extra-mural Studies 1958. At Cranfield: Research Fellow in the Department of Flight; lectures in aircraft flight testing and flight aerodynamics, including flight-test laboratories 1959-62, whilst also receiving pilot training, 1954-56 and 1959-1962; Department of Aircraft Design; lectures in aircraft design aerodynamics and Deputy Warden of The College of Aeronautics 1962-64. 1964-2015: Lecturer in pure and applied mathematics, computer science, statistics, and logic, jointly and severally at: the University College of North Wales, Westminster School, London Guildhall University, Regent's College and the London Campuses of Ithaca University, Webster University, Notre Dame University, and Pepperdine University. Professor of Mathematics, Computing and Head of the Department of Science in the British American College at Regents College, London 1994-2008. Honorary Secretary of The Whitworth Society 1988-2011. Research publications include various papers on aerodynamics, theory of machines, seed dispersal and properties of plant growth, computer science etc. Book contributions to Seed Dispersal (Ed. D. Murray) Academic Press; Low-Dimensional Topology (Eds R. Brown & T. Thickstun), Cambridge University Press;; B.B.C. Radio 4 broadcast 'Can pianos fly' (August 1995); The Whitworth Register (Ed.) 1998, 2008 & 2012, The Whitworth Society.
