Editing Jacob Bronowski (section)

==Early life and education==
Jacob Bronowski was born to a Polish-Jewish family in [[Łódź]], [[Congress Poland]], in 1908. His family moved to Germany during the [[First World War]], and to Britain in 1920, Bronowski's parents having been married in Britain in the London house of his maternal grandfather in 1907. Although, according to Bronowski, he knew only two English words on arriving in Britain,<ref>{{cite book | last = Bronowski | first = Jacob | title = The Common Sense of Science | publisher = Harvard University Press | location = Cambridge, Massachusetts | year = 1967 | page = [https://archive.org/details/commonsenseofsci00bron_0/page/8 8] | isbn = 978-0-674-14651-8 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/commonsenseofsci00bron_0/page/8 }}</ref> he gained admission to the [[Central Foundation Boys' School]] in [[London]] and went on to study mathematics at the [[University of Cambridge]], graduating as [[Senior Wrangler]] (best student mathematician) in 1930.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x6VFAAAAYAAJ |magazine=[[New Scientist]]|number=262|title= Profile – Dr Jacob Bronowski {{!}} His greatest delight: to share his thoughts |date=23 November 1961|page= 483}}</ref>

As a mathematics student at [[Jesus College, Cambridge]], Bronowski co-edited – with [[William Empson]] – the literary periodical ''Experiment'', which first appeared in 1928. Bronowski would pursue this sort of dual activity, in both the mathematical and literary worlds, throughout his professional life. He was also a strong chess player, earning a [[Blue (university sport)|half-blue]] while at Cambridge and composing numerous chess problems for the ''[[British Chess Magazine]]'' between 1926 and 1970.<ref>{{cite web | last = Winter | first = Edward | title = Chess Notes | url =  http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/winter34.html |access-date = 23 March 2008}}</ref> He received a PhD in [[mathematics]] at Cambridge in 1935, writing a dissertation in [[algebraic geometry]]. For a time in the 1930s he lived near [[Laura Riding]] and [[Robert Graves]] in [[Majorca]]. From 1934 to 1942, he taught mathematics at the [[University of Hull|University College of Hull]]. Beginning in this period, the British secret service [[MI5]] placed him under surveillance, believing he was a security risk,<ref>{{cite news |first=Sanchia |last=Berg |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9444000/9444270.stm |title=MI5 'said Bronowski was a risk' |work=BBC News |date=4 April 2011}}</ref> which may have restricted his access to senior posts in the UK.