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	American Scientist Online - Training for the Tripos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		That the Tripos had such a profound effect on the intellectual orientation and research style of so many physicists is all the more remarkable when one considers that it was the apotheosis of Cambridge undergraduate education, in which research was scarcely the goal of instruction.
		A part of the liberal undergraduate education at Cambridge, where men were for the most part trained for the liberal professions rather than for scholarship, the Mathematical Tripos had its origins in the 18th century in the university's Senate House Examination, an oral disputation originally conducted to test a student's knowledge broadly.
		Finally, given the profound and lasting influence of the Mathematical Tripos on the development of mathematical physics in Great Britain, it is important to learn why, precisely, a technical subject came to dominate Cambridge undergraduate studies by the end of the 18th century.
	www.americanscientist.org /template/BookReviewTypeDetail/assetid/32663 (1300 words)

	Britain.tv Wikipedia - Portal:Mathematics
		Mathematics is often defined as the study of quantity, structure (pattern), change, and space.
		Some people call mathematics the study of "figures and numbers", but this is an oversimplification.
		In the formalist view, it is the investigation of axiomatically defined abstract structures using logic and mathematical notation.
	www.britain.tv /wikipedia.php?title=Portal:Mathematics (544 words)

	The Ultimate University of Cambridge Dog Breeds Information Guide and Reference
		Cambridge is a member of the Russell Group of Universities, a network of large, research-led British universities; the Coimbra Group, an association of leading European universities; and the LERU, League of European Research Universities.
		A Cambridge exam for the Bachelor of Arts degree, the main first degree at Cambridge in both arts and science subjects, is known as a Tripos.
		After Cambridge was recognised as a Studium Generale in the 13th century it became common for researchers from other European medieval universities to come and visit Cambridge to study or to give lecture courses.
	www.dogluvers.com /dog_breeds/Cambridge_University (1873 words)

	Selwyn College Cambridge - Mathematics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The Mathematical Tripos in its present form aims to cater both for students who wish to follow a career in mathematics and for those who leave to pursue wider interests after graduation.
		These range from courses which combine previous work into one of the ‘high points’ of mathematics and those that are relevant to the applications of mathematics encountered in careers in technology and the business world to courses that specialise in active areas of mathematics for people intending to study the subject further.
		Naturally the Mathematical Tripos prepares students for research in mathematics, but it is also excellent preparation for research in fields such as theoretical physics (including high energy physics, relativity & cosmology), astronomy and theoretical geophysics (including atmospheric dynamics).
	www.sel.cam.ac.uk /prospectus2005/home/index.php?p=48 (1382 words)

	ARTIFICE AND THE NATURAL WORLD: MATHEMATICS, LOGIC, TECHNOLOGY IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
		The mathematical method, he thinks, is applicable everywhere; and there is no problem about the self-evidence of the first principles, because there is only one of them, and it is the principle of non-contradiction.
		Hume's philosophy of mathematics is a natural outgrowth of his combining the usual "science of quantity and extension" view with his requirement that all concepts be explained in terms of impressions and ideas.
		Such complicated mathematical facts as that a number is divisible by 9 if the sum of its digits is also divisible by 9 may at first appear due to chance or design, but reasoning shows they result from "the nature of numbers".
	web.maths.unsw.edu.au /~jim/18c.html (11647 words)

	Christ's College - Admissions
		The Director of Studies in Mathematics at Christs, Dr Robert Hunt, is also the Deputy Director of the renowned Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, and holds a prize from the University of Cambridge for excellence in teaching.
		Mathematics is one of the most (maybe the most) versatile and marketable of degree subjects, and graduates from the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos are highly sought by employers.
		In addition to nominating Cambridge as one of your selected universities on the UCAS application form, it is also desirable to choose a College of preference (the alternative is to submit an Open Application and allow a College preference to be chosen for you by computer).
	www.christs.cam.ac.uk /admissions/subjects/math.html (2669 words)

	Cambridge Mathematical Tripos - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Mathematical Tripos is the taught mathematics course at the University of Cambridge.
		In its classical nineteenth-century form, the tripos was a distinctive written examination of undergraduate students of the University of Cambridge.
		Andrew Forsyth, Senior Wrangler 1881, stayed in Cambridge and was one of the reformers responsible for the New Tripos.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cambridge_Mathematical_Tripos (941 words)

	EXAMINATIONS - Online Information article about EXAMINATIONS
		At the Cambridge tripos (as described by Jebb in 1774, Remarks, andc., pp.
		The" senior wrangler" was the first candidate in order of merit in the first part of the mathematical tripos.
		A further distinction is important, especially in such subjects as mathematics or foreign languages, in which it is legitimate to ask what precise power on the part of a candidate the passing of an examination shall signify.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /EUD_FAT/EXAMINATIONS.html (6438 words)

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		Cambridge problems: being a collection of the printed questions proposed to the candidates for the degree of bachelor of arts at the general examinations from 1801 to 1810 inclusive
		Cambridge problems: being a collection of the printed questions proposed to the candidates for the degree of bachelor of arts at the general examinations from 1801 to 1820 inclusive
		Cambridge problems: being a collection of the printed questions proposed to the candidates for the degree of bachelor of arts at the general examinations from 1811 to 1820 inclusive
	www.mathpropress.com /mathBooks/ScholarlyExams.html (646 words)

	Mathematics at Christ's College
		For students already at Cambridge, it is not necessary to make the decision as to whether or not to continue to Part III until they have completed their Part II year.
		Mathematics is one of the most (maybe the most) versatile and marketable of degree subjects, and graduates from the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos are highly sought by employers.
		In addition to nominating Cambridge as one of your selected universities on the UCAS application form, it is also desirable to choose a College of preference (the alternative is to submit an Open Application and allow a College preference to be chosen for you by computer).
	www.damtp.cam.ac.uk /user/reh10/admissions.html (2423 words)

	Karen Spärck Jones (26 August 1935 – 4 April 2007) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		A Fellow of the British Academy, of which she was Vice-President from 2000 to 2002, she had a long, rich and remarkable career as a pioneer of information science from the very early days of computing to the present day.
		Karen was a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) and the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI), and was President of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) in 1994.
		In 1997 he started up the Microsoft Research Laboratory in Cambridge, which brings talent from all over the world to the city, and which is now housed in The Roger Needham Building at West Cambridge.
	www.admin.cam.ac.uk /news/dp/2007040403 (659 words)

	George Gabriel Stokes
		It is interesting to note that George Gabriel, while primarily a mathematical physicist, did, like his great-uncle Whitley, cross the boundary between mathematics and medicine by discovering the respiratory function of haemoglobin.
		Wrangler in the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos of 1828, and obtained a Fellowship at Caius College.
		But perhaps his major advance was in the wave theory of light, by then well established at Cambridge, examining mathematically the properties of the ether which he treated as a sensibly incompressible elastic medium.
	www.cmde.dcu.ie /Stokes/GGStokes.html (3233 words)

	Hudson biography
		Hilda's mother was also a mathematician who had read mathematics at Newnham College, Cambridge, so perhaps it was not entirely surprising that William and his wife should have had children with outstanding mathematical talents who went on to study mathematics at Cambridge.
		After leaving Cambridge, Hilda Hudson went to Germany for a year spending the time studying at the University of Berlin with Schwarz, Schottky, Edmund Landau and others.
		She will long be remembered by the mathematical world for her contributions to geometry and by Newnham and Cambridge as one of their distinguished alumni.
	www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Biographies/Hudson.html (999 words)

	Natural Sciences Tripos: Part IB Mathematics
		This course is taught by the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics.
		In order to take this course in Part IB of the Natural Sciences Tripos, it is necessary to have obtained at least a second class in Part IA Mathematics for Natural Sciences, course A or B. The material from course A is assumed.
		Essential: NST Part IA Mathematics, course A or B or either Part IA of the Mathematical Tripos or Part IA of the Engineering Tripos.
	www.cam.ac.uk /cambuniv/natscitripos/ps/aims/p1b/maths.html (243 words)

	Statistical Laboratory Vacancies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The Laboratory is responsible for teaching courses in Probability, Statistics and the Mathematics of Operational Research within the University's Mathematical Tripos, and for teaching the M.Phil.
		We are fortunate that Cambridge has been chosen as the location of several prestigious units with strong statistical interests; links with these units include applied projects for the M.Phil., jointly supervised research students, as well as collaborative research.
		The Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, which opened in Cambridge in July 1992, is a world centre for modern developments in the mathematical sciences and runs a number of major visitor programmes each year.
	www.statslab.cam.ac.uk /Vacancies/partics.html (509 words)

	S.C.U. Mathematics Colloquium Series, Fall 1996
		Let's start with the last: when the logician speaks of axioms he or she usually means those for the laws of valid reasoning and for some fundamental concepts like number, set and function.
		Goedel himself was one of the leading proponents of the need for new axioms to settle both arithmetical and set-theoretical truths, and he suggested how this might be pursued via so-called axioms of higher infinity, or "large cardinal" axioms, examples of which will be given in the talk.
		And practically all of everyday mathematics, pure and applied, can be formalized in relatively weak portions of set theory, and there is no evidence that any more than that will really be needed for those purposes.
	math.scu.edu /colloquium/fall96.html (1021 words)

	New Zealand Mathematical Societu Newsletter Number 86, December 2002
		Hans became Head of Mathematics at Wellington Polytechnic, and he was the President of the New Zealand Association of Scientists from 1974 to 1976.
		The NZ Mathematical Society Research Award for 2002 was recently made at the 2002 Mathematics Colloquium to Bakhadyr Khoussainov (University of Auckland) "for his prolific, insightful and penetrating investigations into logic, complexity and computability".
		In mathematics, and sciences that use mathematics, there is sometimes the opportunity and the temptation to act like masters, substituting intuition for careful reasoning.
	ifs.massey.ac.nz /mathnews/NZMS86/news86a.shtml (14016 words)

	abstrcts2
		In this talk, I will look briefly at the history of women in science and mathematics and the solutions that have been tried since the 1970s to increase the numbers of women in quantitative fields.
		As a consequence, in order to obtain an honor degree from Cambridge it was necessary to pass the Tripos.
		Selected problems from The Educational Times and the 1880 and 1890 Mathematical Tripos exams will be included as well as a brief history of the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos.
	www.american.edu /academic.depts/cas/mathstat/MAA/spr99/abstrcts2.html (406 words)

	Hoi polloi
		For instance, the various classes of degree of the Cambridge's Mathematical Tripos were Wranglers (what we would now call First Class), Senior and Junior Optimes (Second and Third Class), followed by Hoi Polloi - also called Poll Men.
		The first record I can find of this in print is from a listing of Cambridge degree awards in The Times, 22nd January 1833.
		Under a heading of Cambridge List of Honours and Degrees - Mathematical Tripos are listed the names who had been awarded various classes, and including a rather long list under Hoi Polloi.
	www.phrases.org.uk /meanings/183475.html (399 words)

	Lord Kelvin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		He was the second son of Professor James Thomson, head of the mathematical department of the Royal Academical Institution - whose family originally had emigrated from Scotland to escape religious persecution.
		Before long he was contributing articles to the Cambridge Mathematical Journal and gained a reputation for brilliance.
		The highest honor a student of mathematics could win in those days was top place on the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos lists - in other words, highest score in the tripos contest.
	www.todayinsci.com /K/Kelvin_Lord/Kelvin_Lord1.htm (3276 words)

	James Clerk Maxwell: Maker of Waves
		Since this conference is devoted to "Scotland's Mathematical Heritage" it is important for Scotland to acknowledge and recognise the proper place for one of its greatest sons.
		There is a story told by Professor Thompson, later Master of Trinity College, Cambridge [image of Trinity], as to how Maxwell used these papers to great effect when he wished, after one term at Cambridge, to migrate from Peterhouse College to Trinity College.
		This is clearly seen in his masterly analysis of the stability of Saturn's rings and in his analysis of the statistical behaviour of the molecules in a gas.
	www.victorianweb.org /science/maxwell/forfar1.html (5084 words)

	How Good Is Cambridge Part III Mathematical Tripos?
		Cambridge to undertake the Part III of Mathematical Tripos at the
		At Cambridge you cover\nalmost as much ground in one year as in three years of a maths degree.
		Cambridge Pt III and it was suggested I attend graduate courses
	www.physicsforums.com /showthread.php?t=29512 (4177 words)

	Part III of the Mathematical Tripos at Cambridge. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		A degree course at the University of Cambridge is properly called a tripos, after the three-legged stool on which the student traditionally sat to be examined.
		The Mathematics faculty at Cambridge, however, has retained Part III: it now serves as a one-year course to prepare new graduates for research (by teaching an enormous amount of material not present in the undergraduate syllabus), ending in an examination in which each student may either fail, pass or achieve distinction.
		Several other scientific faculties encourage (in some cases require) their aspiring research students to do Part III of the mathematics tripos as a rigorous final training before starting research.
	www.bgnett.no /~eddy/cv/part3.html (340 words)

	S. J. Wadsley - Curriculum Vitae (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		I have done small group teaching for a number of Cambridge colleges over the last four years at all levels of the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos.
		I was the graduate student representative on Cambridge University's Faculty Board of Mathematics in 2002.
		I am the student representative on the committee for the reform of Part II of the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos.
	www-stu.cai.cam.ac.uk /~sjw47/cv.html (130 words)

	Clerk Maxwell Cancer Research Fund
		He was born on 13 June 1831 at 14 India Street, Edinburgh and educated at The Edinburgh Academy and Edinburgh University before graduating in the Mathematical Tripos at Cambridge.
		Although he spent much of his early life in Edinburgh, it was Glenlair, the family estate in Galloway, to which he returned at every opportunity throughout his life.
		Soon after graduating from Cambridge, he was appointed to the chair of natural philosophy at Marischal College in Aberdeen, where he met and married the principal’s daughter, Katherine Dewar.
	www.maxwellcancerfund.org /jcm.htm (394 words)

	Tripos - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A common (but untrue) myth says that students used to receive one leg of a stool in each of their three years of exams, receiving the whole stool at graduation.
		A Tripos is divided into two parts: Part I, which is broadly based, and Part II, which allows specialisation within the student's chosen field.
		Degree regulations state that, to be awarded a degree, you must have passed both a Part I and a Part II examination.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tripos (530 words)

	Certificate of Advanced Study in Mathematics (Part III)
		The Certificate of Advanced Study in Mathematics (CASM), which is also known as "Part III of the Mathematical Tripos", is a one-year course which might most simply be described as a taught Master's course in mathematics.
		If you are currently a Cambridge undergraduate intending to take Part III immediately after taking Part II of the Mathematical Tripos or Part II of the Natural Sciences Tripos (NST), then you should consult your College Director of Studies about Part III.
		It is helpful for us if you indicate whether your interests are in pure mathematics, mathematical statistics, applied mathematics and/or theoretical physics; you are welcome to indicate an interest in more than one area.
	www.maths.cam.ac.uk /postgrad/casm (727 words)

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