Raymond Flood is Emeritus Fellow and a member of the Continuing Education Department at

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Education

Flood achieved a Bachelor of Science degree at

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and a master's degree at Linacre College, Oxford. He obtained his PhD from

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Career

In 1990, Flood was made a Founding Fellow of

, formally Rewley House.

was created to look after the interests of mature and part-time students. Flood primarily teaches those students who are either mature, or who study part-time. He has held numerous positions at the College and the

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, including Curator of the University Libraries and as a University lecturer at the

. Flood has dedicated much of his academic career promoting mathematics and computing to adult audiences. He has been President of the

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from 2006 until 2009, and also Research Associate in the School of Theoretical Physics,

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. On

, Flood has said ''"Gresham College comes from a long tradition of liberal adult education. Allowing people from a variety of backgrounds... to get access to current thinking on the major issues of the day. Gresham College ethos is very similar to my own ethos"''Professor Raymond Flood and Gresham College (accessed 22 January 2015)
/ref> In August 2012, Flood was appointed Gresham Professor of Geometry at

for a period of three years, replacing John D. Barrow. During his term at the College he delivered series of free public lectures on ''Shaping Modern Mathematics'', ''Applying Modern Mathematics'', and ''Great Mathematicians, Great Mathematics''.

Other Research Work and Publications

Aside from his academic work, Flood is active in communicating mathematics and its history to non-specialist audiences. He has appeared on BBC Radio 4's

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and has lectured on transatlantic voyages with

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. Flood has produced and co-produced many publications and books on Mathematics. Some of the most recent books with which he has been involved are ''James Clerk Maxwell: Perspectives on his Life and Work'' (Oxford University Press, 2014), ''The Great Mathematicians'' (Arcturus, 2011), which celebrates the achievements of the great mathematicians in their historical context, and ''Mathematics in Victorian Britain'' (Oxford University Press, 2011), which assembles in a single source, research on the history of mathematicians in Victorian Britain that would otherwise be out of reach of the general reader.''Mathematics in Victorian Britain'' listing on the OUP website
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References

External links

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