Talk:K. D. Tocher

Doctoral advisor
Who was Tocher's doctoral advisor? Gareth Jones (talk) 14:44, 31 October 2012 (UTC)

I haven't been able to find an answer to this, unfortunately his thesis contains no acknowledgement and both Tocher and his wife have now passed away. The paper mentioned George Alfred Barnard in the acknowledgements, "I wish to thank ... Professor G. A. Barnard for pointing out a flaw in one section, which has since been rectified" and Tony Brooker writes in his Introduction to Tocher's ICCE report  "The project actually started as the result of a conversation between myself and Prof. George Barnard, then Prof of Statistics in the Maths dept." Also, deals directly with Barnard's work, so my best guess at the moment is that Barnard would have been Tocher's advisor. Gareth Jones (talk) 17:25, 13 March 2013 (UTC)