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Summary
Summary
A few years ago, in the Wren Library of Trinity College, Cambridge, I came across a remarkable but then little-known album of pencil and watercolour portraits. The artist of most (perhaps all) was Thomas Charles Wageman. Created during 1829-1852, these portraits are of pupils of the famous mat- matical tutor William Hopkins. Though I knew much about several of the subjects, the names of others were then unknown to me. I was prompted to discover more about them all, and gradually this interest evolved into the present book. The project has expanded naturally to describe the Cambridge educational milieu of the time, the work of William Hopkins, and the later achievements of his pupils and their contemporaries. As I have taught applied mathematics in a British university for forty years, during a time of rapid change, the struggles to implement and to resist reform in mid-nineteenth-century Cambridge struck a chord of recognition. So, too, did debates about academic standards of honours degrees. And my own experiences, as a graduate of a Scottish university who proceeded to C- bridge for postgraduate work, gave me a particular interest in those Scots and Irish students who did much the same more than a hundred years earlier. As a mathematician, I sometimes felt frustrated at having to suppress virtually all of the ? ne mathematics associated with this period: but to have included such technical material would have made this a very different book.
Author Notes
ADD Craik is a well-respected mathematician and an authority on 19th century mathematics. He has contributed a number of well-regarded articles to journals such as "Historia Mathematica" and "Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London".
Table of Contents
Preface | p. vii |
List of Illustrations | p. xiii |
Part I Educating the Elite | p. 1 |
1 Introducing Hopkins and His Wranglers | p. 3 |
2 The Student Experience, 1820-1860 | p. 9 |
Main Contemporary Sources | p. 9 |
The Struggles of Solomon Atkinson | p. 10 |
J.M.F. Wright's "Alma Mater" | p. 15 |
Reminiscences of John Venn, Charles Bristed and Walter Besant | p. 18 |
Joseph Romilly's Diaries | p. 23 |
3 Cambridge University in Context | p. 25 |
Parliament and the People | p. 25 |
Parliament, the Church and the Universities | p. 27 |
Promoting Education and Science | p. 33 |
The Town and University of Cambridge | p. 39 |
College Life | p. 43 |
Towards a Modern University | p. 49 |
4 Teaching at Cambridge | p. 51 |
Fellows, Private Tutors and Professors | p. 51 |
Reforms of Mathematics in the Early Nineteenth Century | p. 59 |
Peacock's "Statutes" and Whewell's "Liberal Education" | p. 66 |
The 1850-1852 Royal Commission and After | p. 77 |
Commission Evidence on Mathematics | p. 84 |
The Tripos and Smith's Prize Examinations | p. 90 |
5 William Hopkins | p. 99 |
Biography | p. 99 |
Hopkins as Private Tutor | p. 107 |
Hopkins on Cambridge Education | p. 114 |
Hopkins and Science | p. 118 |
6 Hopkins' Top Wranglers, 1829-1854 | p. 131 |
Portraits of Wranglers: Album and Artist | p. 131 |
General View of the Wranglers | p. 133 |
Brief Biographies | p. 137 |
Colour Plates | p. 146 |
Part II Careers of the Wranglers | p. 147 |
7 The "Cambridge Stamp" | p. 149 |
The Benefits of Becoming a High Wrangler | p. 149 |
Lawyers, Politicians and Educators | p. 152 |
The Anglican Church at Home and Abroad | p. 157 |
8 Wranglers at Home: Four Biographies | p. 163 |
George Green | p. 163 |
John Couch Adams | p. 173 |
George Gabriel Stokes | p. 187 |
Harvey Goodwin | p. 201 |
9 Universities and Colleges | p. 213 |
The English Universities and Colleges | p. 213 |
The Scottish Universities | p. 230 |
Ireland and Overseas | p. 236 |
10 Wranglers Abroad: Churchmen and Educators in the Colonies | p. 241 |
Australia | p. 241 |
India | p. 253 |
The African Bishops | p. 270 |
11 The Growth of a Research Community | p. 287 |
Institutions and Journals | p. 287 |
Scottish and Irish Contributions | p. 293 |
12 Achievements in the Mathematical Sciences | p. 301 |
The Mathematical Sciences Before 1830 | p. 301 |
The Mathematical Sciences, 1830-1880 | p. 309 |
13 Postscript | p. 343 |
Appendix | p. 355 |
References | p. 359 |
Indices | p. 383 |