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Mr Hopkins' Men Cambridge Reform and British Mathematics in the 19th Century

:	A.D.D. Craik
:	Mr Hopkins' Men Cambridge Reform and British Mathematics in the 19th Century
:	Springer-Verlag
:	9781846287916
:	1
:	CHF 49.80
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:	Allgemeines, Lexika
:	English

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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.

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'.

	Preface	7
	Contents	9
	List of Illustrations	13
	Part I Educating the Elite	16
	1. Introducing Hopkins and His Wranglers	17
	2. The Student Experience, 1820–1860	23
	Main Contemporary Sources	23
	The Struggles of Solomon Atkinson	24
	J.M.F. Wright’s “Alma Mater”	29
	Reminiscences of John Venn, Charles Bristed and Walter Besant	32
	Joseph Romilly’s Diaries	37
	3. Cambridge University in Context	39
	Parliament and the People	39
	Parliament, the Church and the Universities	41
	Promoting Education and Science	47
	The Town and University of Cambridge	53
	College Life	57
	Towards a Modern University	63
	4. Teaching at Cambridge	65
	Fellows, Private Tutors and Professors	65
	Reforms of Mathematics in the Early Nineteenth Century	73
	Peacock’s “Statutes” and Whewell’s “ Liberal Education”	80
	The 1850–1852 Royal Commission and After	91
	Commission Evidence on Mathematics	98
	The Tripos and Smith’s Prize Examinations	104
	5. William Hopkins	113
	Biography	113
	Hopkins as Private Tutor	121
	Hopkins on Cambridge Education	128
	Hopkins and Science	132
	6. Hopkins’ Top Wranglers, 1829–1854	145
	Portraits of Wranglers: Album and Artist	145
	General View of the Wranglers	147
	Brief Biographies	151
	Part II Careers of the Wranglers	161
	7. The Cambridge Stamp	163
	The Bene.ts of Becoming a High Wrangler	163
	Lawyers, Politicians and Educators	166
	The Anglican Church at Home and Abroad	171
	8. Wranglers at Home: Four Biographies	177
	George Green	177
	John Couch Adams	187
	George Gabriel Stokes	201
	Harvey Goodwin	215
	9. Universities and Colleges	227
	The English Universities and Colleges	227
	The Scottish Universities	244
	Ireland and Overseas	250
	10. Wranglers Abroad: Churchmen and Educators in the Colonies	255
	Australia: C. Perry, J.W. Stephen, W.P. Wilson, A. Barry, M. B. Pell, W. Scott, J. Cockle	255
	India: H. Cotterill, J.H. Pratt, C.B. Clarke, W. A. Porter, J. B. Phear	267
	The African Bishops: J.W. Colenso, C. F. Mackenzie, H. Cotterill	284
	11. The Growth of a Research Community	301
	Institutions and Journals	301
	Scottish and Irish Contributions	307
	12. Achievements in the Mathematical Sciences	315
	The Mathematical Sciences Before 1830	315
	The Mathematical Sciences, 1830–1880	323
	13. Postscript	357
	Appendix	369
	Appendix A	369
	Appendix B	370
	References	373
	INDICES	397
	Index of Personal Names	399
	General Index	411