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Mr Hopkins' Men - Cambridge Reform and British Mathematics in the 19th Century
of: A.D.D. Craik
Springer-Verlag, 2008
ISBN: 9781846287916 , 410 Pages
Format: PDF, Read online
Copy protection: DRM
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
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