Maths Uni Chat

That's like my second year, except only 2 lectures and problems class per week for each module. Plus problem sheets.

who beat Gowers to become Senior Wrangler in 1984?

5 for the college other than Trinity to have got two SWs most recently.
And 5 for naming two SWs since 1990 from Colleges founded after 1550.

Well it wasn't Imre Leader. He ****ed it up. Do you know who beat both him and Gowers, or do we have to guess?


I count Caius as an old college, so it wasn't them.

The two colleges founded between 1550 and 1800, i.e. Sidney and Emma, have both had SWs. But has anyone ever got to be Senior Wrangler from a post-1800 college?? Generally speaking, the support just isn't there.

Maybe Churchill once got the SW? Other than that, I don't think the SW has ever come from a "new" college.

The "new" colleges are:
Downing 1800
Fitzwilliam 1869
Girton 1869
Newnham 1871
Selwyn 1882
Hughes Hall 1885
St Edmund's 1896
Murray Edwards 1954
Churchill 1960
Lucy Cavendish 1965
Wolfson 1965
Homerton 1976
Robinson 1977

If there has ever been an SW from one of these, who was it, and when?

Newnham had an 'above the senior wrangler', but that's all I can think of there.

I.e., the woman who took the old-style tripos and topped the rankings but wasn't counted because the wrangler list could only include men?

But yes.

Newnham had an 'above the senior wrangler', but that's all I can think of there.

So not counting Philippa Fawcett, it's looking as though:

none of the 13 new colleges (post-1800) have ever had a Senior Wrangler;
and all of the 16 old colleges (pre-1800) have had at least one!!

Amazing!

Is it certain that no woman has ever been SW?? I would have thought if a woman had been, since 1909, news would have leaked out...but that's just surmise...

Do students use calc at university (if yes, is casio gx9750 good enough?) ? And are problems more like A-level style (straightforward) or you have to think a bit to get the answer (like olympiads and stuff)?

Do students use calc at university (if yes, is casio gx9750 good enough?) ? And are problems more like A-level style (straightforward) or you have to think a bit to get the answer (like olympiads and stuff)?

Do students use calc at university (if yes, is casio gx9750 good enough?) ? And are problems more like A-level style (straightforward) or you have to think a bit to get the answer (like olympiads and stuff)?

Do students use calc at university (if yes, is casio gx9750 good enough?) ? And are problems more like A-level style (straightforward) or you have to think a bit to get the answer (like olympiads and stuff)?

Ok, what about problems than? Are problems more like A-level style (straightforward) or you have to think a bit to get the answer (like olympiads and stuff)?

What are they like?

Neither.

It depends what year, but first couple of weeks are like A level style. Then, it becomes nothing like A levels or Olympiad.

http://maths.cam.ac.uk/undergrad/examplesheets/

(search other universities for other examples. I'd be surprised if you understand what many questions mean but still worth a look)

So, then it becomes like what?