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- From: crb11@cus.cam.ac.uk (Colin Bell)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: Fields Medal Winners
- Message-ID: <1993Jan10.003051.11353@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
- Date: 10 Jan 93 00:30:51 GMT
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- In article <1452@kepler1.rentec.com>, andrew@rentec.com (Andrew Mullhaupt) writes:
- |> In article <erwin.726504145@trwacs> erwin@trwacs.fp.trw.com (Harry Erwin) writes:
- |> >This impression is associated with one of those stories. I understand
- |> >Artin, Atiyah, and Bott were the first three at the math tripos one year
- |> >at Oxford (1950?). Apparently it made quite an impression.
- |>
- |> I'm a bit surprised at the idea that the tripos still existed in 1950,
- |> since Hardy successfully abolished them but did not see 1950. Can
- |> anyone clear this up?
- |>
- |> Later,
- |> Andrew Mullhaupt
-
- To clear a couple of things up:
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- Atiyah was at Cambridge at the time. I _think_ he graduated in 1950, it's
- certainly within a year or so of then.
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- The Tripos is an exclusively Cambridge object: it's alive and reasonably well.
- Hardy didn't get it abolished, merely reformed (this was in 1910). Since then,
- it's spread to other subjects apart from mathematics (in fact all other
- undergraduate exams are now Tripos).
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- Colin Bell, CRB11@CUS.CAM.AC.UK
- Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Cambridge.
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