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- From: gjm11@cus.cam.ac.uk (G.J. McCaughan)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: Fields Medal Winners
- Message-ID: <1993Jan10.004136.11719@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
- Date: 10 Jan 93 00:41:36 GMT
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- In article <1452@kepler1.rentec.com>, andrew@rentec.com (Andrew Mullhaupt) writes:
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- > 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?
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- Er, what? I wonder what the exam I sat a year and a half ago was, then.
- Hardy (and others) *reformed* the Tripos very greatly, but it's alive and
- well, and Part III (what used to be Part II; now a post-graduate course)
- is as crap as ever.
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- [Er, I need hardly add that the views expressed above do not represent etc.]
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- Gareth McCaughan Dept. of Pure Mathematics & Mathematical Statistics,
- gjm11@cus.cam.ac.uk Cambridge University, England. [Research student]
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