!!Bryan Birch - Curriculum Vitae \\ __Education__ \\ *1939 - 1944 Elms School Colwall\\ *1944 - 1949 Shrewsbury School\\ *1949 - 1951 Military Service\\ *1951 - 1956 Trinity College Cambridge\\ *1954 BA\\ *1957 PhD (advisor J.W.S Cassels)\\ \\ __Academic positions__ \\ *1998 - present: Emeritus Professor and Emeritus Fellow of Brasenose College, University of Oxford\\ *1985 - 1998: Professor of Arithmetic and and Professorial Fellow of Brasenose College, University of Oxford\\ *1966 - 1985: Reader in Mathematics and Senior Research Fellow at Brasenose College, University of Oxford\\ *1962 - 1965: Senior Lecturer and Reader, University of Manchester\\ *1959 - 1962: Senior Research Fellow, Churchill College , Cambridge\\ *1957 - 1958: Commonwealth Fund Fellow, Princeton University\\ *1956 - 1960: Research Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge \\