Tripos and Tribunals:  The Wartime Diary of a Cambridge Senior Wrangler

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• June Barrow-Green (The Open University)
• Wednesday 30 April 2025, 11:45-12:45
• Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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MHMW02 - Modern History of Mathematics: Looking Ahead

From 1 January 1915 to 29 July 1916, Francis Puryer White (1893-1969), a third-year Cambridge mathematics student, kept a detailed diary.  In it he chronicled his academic, spiritual, and recreational life as he passed from undergraduate to postgraduate under the cloud of the First World War.  In my talk I shall describe some of the contents of White’s diary, prefaced by a few remarks about diaries as sources in history of mathematics.  

This talk is part of the Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series series.

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