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4 unusual facts about TRIPOS


TRIPOS

For the name given to undergraduate degree subjects by Cambridge University, see Tripos.

Those two concepts together allowed for sending and receiving over 1250 packets per second on a 10 MHz Motorola 68010 CPU.

Tripos

Although a classical Tripos was created in 1822, it was only open to those who already had high honours in mathematics or those who were the sons of peers.

TRIPOS

TRIPOS was ported to a number of machines, including the Data General Nova 2, the Computer Automation LSI4, Motorola 68000 and Intel 8086- based hardware.


Hilda Runciman, Viscountess Runciman of Doxford

A daughter of James Cochran Stevenson, a Liberal Member of Parliament for South Shields, Hilda Stevenson was educated at Notting Hill High School and Girton College, Cambridge where she took first class honours in the History Tripos.

Isaac Cowley Lambert

When the first Varsity Game between Cambridge and Oxford Universities was arranged in 1872, the Cambridge captain was E. Winnington Ingram, but because of Tripos work, he was unavailable to travel to Oxford.

Maurice Wilkins

He studied physics, within the Natural Sciences Tripos, and received a B.A. Mark Oliphant who was one of Wilkin's tutors at St. John's had been appointed to the Chair of Physics at the University of Birmingham, and had appointed John Randall to his staff.

Mumbiram

He was also a nephew of Sir Raghunath Paranjpe (R. P. Paranjpe), first Indian to top the tripos Math exam at Cambridge.

P. G. Ashmore

As an undergraduate, he held a scholarship, played soccer for Cambridge University and hockey for Cambridgeshire, was in his college's cricket First XI and crowned his first four years with a double first in the Natural Science tripos.

Part III of the Mathematical Tripos

Students who complete Part III of the Mathematical Tripos, but did not complete undergraduate studies at Cambridge will be awarded the Master of Advanced Study (M.A.St.) in Mathematics degree for the one year course.

R. K. Rubugunday

He completed his B.A. Hons from Presidency College, Madras and Tripos from Cambridge in 1938.

Robert Hutton

The Goldsmiths’ Company had generously provided funds for a small laboratory and endowed a chair, but it was Hutton who first persuaded the university to introduce metallurgy into Part II of the Natural Sciences Tripos and later Part I.


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