Irish Mathematical Society

Cumann Matamaitice na hÉireann

BULLETIN Number 37 Christmas 1996

ISSN 0791-5578

Contents

• IMS Officers and Local Represenattives ...... ii
• Notes on Applying for IMS Nenbership ...... iii
• Minutes of IMS meeting 4.4.96 ..................... 1

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• Obituary
  Professor John Lighton Synge, FRS ........
  ......Petros S. Florides ................ 3

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• Articles
• A Conic and a Pascal Line as Cubic Locus ..
  ....... P. D. Barry ........................ 7
• Stokes Parametres and Gibbs Bivectors ....
  ............ Michael Hayes ............. 16
• Writing Commutators of Group Commutators as Cubes ..
  ............. Peter V. Hegart ......... 25
• Commutators in Rings ..
  ............. T. Creedon ................ 30
• When is a Finite Ring a Field? ..
  ............ Des MacHale .............. 35
• A Re-analysis of Bessel's Error Data ..
  ............ A. Kinsella ................ 39
• Some Mathematical aspects of Information Technology ..
  ............ Anthony Karel Seda .. 35

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• Book Review
• Groups '93 Galway/St. Andrews ed. by ... C. M. Campbell et al.
  ............. Rod Gow ................ 68