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- From: andrew@rentec.com (Andrew Mullhaupt)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: Fields Medal Winners
- Message-ID: <1464@kepler1.rentec.com>
- Date: 10 Jan 93 15:46:40 GMT
- References: <erwin.726504145@trwacs> <1452@kepler1.rentec.com> <1993Jan10.003051.11353@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
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- In article <1993Jan10.003051.11353@infodev.cam.ac.uk> crb11@cus.cam.ac.uk (Colin Bell) writes:
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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).
-
- Just So.
-
- >Since then,
- >it's spread to other subjects apart from mathematics (in fact all other
- >undergraduate exams are now Tripos).
-
- Sorry to hear it, but thanks for the clarification. Although I believe
- exams when sensibly used are necessary and can be a positive thing, I
- am essentially implacably opposed to mathematics tests which have
- high publicity results. This applies equally to the blithering drones
- of Mensa etc. as to the slightly less narrow visions of mathematics
- competitions.
-
- Later,
- Andrew Mullhaupt
-