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Section: Series 8: Money (Autumn 2000). The eighth series, which is aimed at five- to seven-year-olds, comprised ten episodes focusing on coin recognition, money problems, coin equivalents and change (which the BBC had previously covered in their maths programme, Numbers Plus, in the episode "How Much? How Many?" and i... | Wikipedia - Numbertime - Series 8: Money (Autumn 2000) | 295 | 1,265 | null |
This series was originally aired on each day of the working week for a fortnight as part of the Schools Programmes strand at 11:05 am. Episode 49: Coin Recognition to 10p (23 October 2000)1p Juan, Mama and Pedro go to the fair (but do not know if they have the right money for the coconut shy, roundabout or candy floss)... | Wikipedia - Numbertime - Series 8: Money (Autumn 2000) | 255 | 1,066 | null |
Episode 50: Money Problems to 10p (24 October 2000)2p San Flamingo School is holding another jumble sale (this time to raise money for the new school bell), while Bill is now running a drink stall (but after he sells his last drink to Bernie for 8p, he has to close it, and Bernie then disguises herself as a vending mac... | Wikipedia - Numbertime - Series 8: Money (Autumn 2000) | 338 | 1,391 | null |
Episode 52: Change from 10p (26 October 2000)10p Little Juan and his friends have now arrived at Santo Flamingo National Park and seen the Giant Cactus, while Bill and Bernie are hungry so they buy a snack for 5p, a carton of juice for 2p and a bar of chocolate for 3p (from three talking vending machines), and an old m... | Wikipedia - Numbertime - Series 8: Money (Autumn 2000) | 229 | 925 | null |
Episode 53: Coin Equivalents to 20p (27 October 2000)20p Juan and Maria notice that Señor Manuel has put up a giant jellybean machine outside Hurrell's store, while Bernie plays "Coin Sports" and loses Bill's 1p, 2p, 5p and 10p coins after they have rolled into a river (making 18p altogether), and a Russian secret agen... | Wikipedia - Numbertime - Series 8: Money (Autumn 2000) | 277 | 1,067 | null |
Episode 54: Change from 20p (30 October 2000)1p – 20p Mama takes Juan back-to-school shopping at Hurrell's store (and has him try on a hat which is too big for him), while Bernie pays 20p to go on an elephant ride and gets 5p change (but she finds it slow, so pays another 20p to go on a rocket ride and gets another 5p ... | Wikipedia - Numbertime - Series 8: Money (Autumn 2000) | 279 | 1,069 | null |
Episode 55: Coin Equivalents to 50p (31 October 2000)50p Señor Gelato promises Juan and Juanita an ice-cream if they go to the Santo Flamingo Bank and get him some coins in exchange for the 50p he gave them, while Bill and Bernie try to get out of a car park (but when Bill has scraped 50p together, the barrier catapult... | Wikipedia - Numbertime - Series 8: Money (Autumn 2000) | 294 | 1,206 | null |
Episode 56: Change from 50p (1 November 2000)1p – 50p Miss Bonanza is getting married (and Juan is responsible for the school's collection of 50p with which to buy her a present), while Bill pays 50p to have his photograph taken and gets 20p change (but it takes it before he can go inside the booth, so Bernie pays anot... | Wikipedia - Numbertime - Series 8: Money (Autumn 2000) | 313 | 1,333 | null |
Episode 57: Coin Equivalents to £1 (2 November 2000)£1 Pedro, Juanita and Maria are sleeping over at Juan's house (and planning to watch a really scary film), while Bill and Bernie are doing their laundry (and have to pay 10p for washing powder in addition to £1 for the washing machine, but when Bernie inserts a £1 coi... | Wikipedia - Numbertime - Series 8: Money (Autumn 2000) | 324 | 1,324 | null |
Episode 58: Up to £2 (3 November 2000)£2 Little Juan is to perform a concert to raise more money for the school bell (with Don Fandango masquerading as Mama and trying to steal all his earnings of £1.60), while Bill and Bernie want to go on a boat trip for £2 (but although Bernie has a £2 coin, they both have to go bac... | Wikipedia - Numbertime - Series 8: Money (Autumn 2000) | 441 | 1,907 | null |
Section: Series 9: Addition and Subtraction (Autumn/Winter 2001). The ninth (and final) series, which is aimed at six- to seven-year-olds, comprised ten episodes focusing on the concepts of adding and subtracting similar to the fourth series (only without Lolita, live-action sketches based on nursery rhymes, or Test th... | Wikipedia - Numbertime - Series 9: Addition and Subtraction (Autumn/Winter 2001) | 302 | 1,359 | null |
This series also saw Michael Fenton-Stevens returning to join the El Nombre cast and introduced the character of Addem (voiced by Richard Pearce), a green snake who discovered the series' concept in the company of a yellow ant named Ann (voiced by Moir Leslie) and a whole civilisation of other multi-coloured ants (most... | Wikipedia - Numbertime - Series 9: Addition and Subtraction (Autumn/Winter 2001) | 283 | 1,323 | null |
Episode 60: Adding Three Numbers (17 September 2001) Juan and Pedro go shopping when Señor Calculo throws a barbecue, Bernie plants some seeds in window boxes and Bill helps her to add them up, Brad Quiff investigates how many chocolate bars the Malarkey Gang have stolen and Ann has to get twenty-nine ants into three h... | Wikipedia - Numbertime - Series 9: Addition and Subtraction (Autumn/Winter 2001) | 302 | 1,324 | null |
Episode 63: Addition with Partition (15 October 2001) Ann learns about adding acorns in hundreds, Brad Quiff reports on the opening of the brand-new "Whizzo Lolly Factory", Bill helps Bernie count her pennies as she is planning to "shop 'till she drops", and Juan and Pedro earn pocket money by picking lemons for Señor ... | Wikipedia - Numbertime - Series 9: Addition and Subtraction (Autumn/Winter 2001) | 316 | 1,383 | null |
Punch steals Judy's marbles from her box while she is asleep. Episode 66: Addition and Subtraction Difference (19 November 2001) Brad Quiff reports on an annual tug-of-war contest between the Diddletown Dodgers and the Softville Saints, Ann needs eighty-two candles for the Queen Ant's birthday cake, Juan and his party ... | Wikipedia - Numbertime - Series 9: Addition and Subtraction (Autumn/Winter 2001) | 304 | 1,272 | null |
Episode 67: Two-Step Subtraction (26 November 2001) Juan and Pedro go to the fair in Costa Fortuna (where their guide, Pablo, fronts a ring-toss game), Ann has to fill forty-five places in the "Accountants"' new building, Bill is running an apple stall (but when Bernie wants to buy three, he finds out he has not got an... | Wikipedia - Numbertime - Series 9: Addition and Subtraction (Autumn/Winter 2001) | 284 | 1,192 | null |
Episode 68: Plus and Minus (3 December 2001) In the show's last episode, a squad of 100 marching ants keeps breaking up and coming back together, Juan and his party are on the plane back to Santo Flamingo (and when they get back to its airport, they are told that they can only bring back a certain amount of things at c... | Wikipedia - Numbertime - Series 9: Addition and Subtraction (Autumn/Winter 2001) | 426 | 1,805 | null |
Section: Career. His career started as a secondary school teacher at grammar school in London in 1891. From 1891 till 1901 he developed methods of teaching which revolutionised the teaching of mathematics in the UK. In 1903 he became a member of the staff in the London Day Training college. He worked as a part-time lec... | Wikipedia - Percy Nunn - Career | 162 | 809 | null |
Section: Oxford Set of Mathematical Instruments. The Oxford Set of Mathematical Instruments is a set of instruments used by generations of school children in the United Kingdom and around the world in mathematics and geometry lessons. The set is marketed in over 100 countries by Helix. It consists of a metal tin emboss... | Wikipedia - Helix (stationery company) - Oxford Set of Mathematical Instruments | 176 | 853 | null |
Section: History. The Society was founded in 1936 by J. H. C. Whitehead together with two of his students at Balliol College, Graham Higman and Jack de Wet. The name of the society was chosen at random by Higman from the titles of the books on Whitehead's shelf; in this case, Oswald Veblen's Invariants of Quadratic Dif... | Wikipedia - Oxford University Invariant Society - History | 186 | 861 | null |
Section: History. The Smith's Prize Examination was founded by bequest of Robert Smith upon his death in 1768 to encourage the study of more advanced mathematics than that found in the undergraduate course. T. W. Körner notes Only a small handful of students took the Smith's prize examination in the nineteenth century.... | Wikipedia - Part III of the Mathematical Tripos - History | 294 | 1,372 | null |
Section: Academics > Degree awarded. Students who have completed their undergraduate degree at Cambridge will be awarded both a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) and the Master of Mathematics (M.Math.) degree for four years of study, provided they have not previously graduated with a B.A. This allows Cambridge graduates to remai... | Wikipedia - Part III of the Mathematical Tripos - Academics > Degree awarded | 184 | 903 | null |
Section: Academics > Grading. The grades available are Fail, Pass (Honours), Merit, and Distinction (the Merit grade was introduced in 2000). Cambridge recognises that in Part III of the mathematical tripos a merit is equivalent to a First Class in the other parts of the Tripos. The level of achievement required for a ... | Wikipedia - Part III of the Mathematical Tripos - Academics > Grading | 160 | 805 | null |
Section: Academics > Prizes. In addition to the grades, there are six associated prizes. Five of these may be awarded at the discretion of the examiners: the Mayhew Prize for applied mathematics, the Tyson Medal for mathematics and astronomy, the Bartlett Prize for applied probability, the Wishart Prize for statistics ... | Wikipedia - Part III of the Mathematical Tripos - Academics > Prizes | 161 | 793 | null |
Article: Philosophy of Mathematics Education Journal. The Philosophy of Mathematics Education Journal is a peer-reviewed open-access academic journal published and edited by Paul Ernest (University of Exeter). It publishes articles relevant to the philosophy of mathematics education, a subfield of mathematics education... | Wikipedia - Philosophy of Mathematics Education Journal - Summary | 349 | 1,710 | null |
Section: History. Plus was initially named PASS Maths (Public Awareness and Schools Support for Maths) in 1997, when it was a project of the Interactive Courseware Research and Development Group, based jointly at the University of Cambridge and Keele University. Plus is now part of the Millennium Mathematics Project, a... | Wikipedia - Plus Magazine - History | 154 | 774 | null |
Section: Example problem and solutions. The first Project Euler problem is Multiples of 3 and 5 If we list all the natural numbers below 10 that are multiples of 3 or 5, we get 3, 5, 6 and 9. The sum of these multiples is 23. Find the sum of all the multiples of 3 or 5 below 1000. It is a 5% rated problem, indicating i... | Wikipedia - Project Euler - Example problem and solutions | 284 | 1,093 | null |
This is a pretty popular combinatorics result. One can extend this result and express a relation for the sum of their elements, namely ∑ x ∈ A ∪ B x = ∑ x ∈ A x + ∑ x ∈ B x − ∑ x ∈ A ∩ B x {\displaystyle \sum _{x\in A\cup B}x=\sum _{x\in A}x+\sum _{x\in B}x-\sum _{x\in A\cap B}x} Applying this to the problem, have A {\... | Wikipedia - Project Euler - Example problem and solutions | 197 | 602 | null |
One can extend this result and express a relation for the sum of their elements, namely ∑ x ∈ A ∪ B x = ∑ x ∈ A x + ∑ x ∈ B x − ∑ x ∈ A ∩ B x {\displaystyle \sum _{x\in A\cup B}x=\sum _{x\in A}x+\sum _{x\in B}x-\sum _{x\in A\cap B}x} Applying this to the problem, have A {\displaystyle A} denote the multiples of 3 up to... | Wikipedia - Project Euler - Example problem and solutions | 395 | 1,102 | null |
Section: Life. Quadling was educated at the City of London School. In 1939 the school was moved out of London, at the start of World War II, with most of the pupils attending Marlborough College though not accommodated there. Quadling had use of the College library at weekends, was influenced by Gordon Nobbs, one of th... | Wikipedia - Douglas Quadling - Life | 309 | 1,474 | null |
Section: Creation of School Mathematics Project. The School Mathematics Project, which changed the course of mathematics teaching in Britain, arose from a meeting between Quadling and three others, Martyn Cundy of Sherborne School, Tom Jones of Winchester College and Professor Bryan Thwaites of University of Southampto... | Wikipedia - Douglas Quadling - Creation of School Mathematics Project | 170 | 798 | null |
Section: Selected publications. Quadling was head-hunted as a textbook writer at the Mathematical Association conference in 1955, by the authors C. V. Durell and Alan Robson (Marlborough College), and A. V. Ready of George Bell & Sons. There resulted his books on mechanics with A. R. D. Ramsay, also of Marlborough. His... | Wikipedia - Douglas Quadling - Selected publications | 329 | 1,165 | null |
Article: The Quarterly Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics. The Quarterly Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics was a mathematics journal that first appeared as such in 1855, but as the continuation of The Cambridge Mathematical Journal that had been launched in 1836 and had run in four volumes before changing it... | Wikipedia - The Quarterly Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics - Summary | 342 | 1,664 | null |
Article: Richardson Professor of Applied Mathematics. The Richardson Chair of Applied Mathematics is an endowed professorial position in the School of Mathematics, University of Manchester, England. The chair was founded by an endowment of £3,600 from one John Richardson, in 1890. The endowment was originally used to s... | Wikipedia - Richardson Professor of Applied Mathematics - Summary | 270 | 1,281 | null |
Article: Sadleirian Professor of Pure Mathematics. The Sadleirian Professorship of Pure Mathematics, originally spelled in the statutes and for the first two professors as Sadlerian, is a professorship in pure mathematics within the DPMMS at the University of Cambridge. It was founded on a bequest from Lady Mary Sadlei... | Wikipedia - Sadleirian Professor of Pure Mathematics - Summary | 174 | 909 | null |
Article: Savilian Professor of Geometry. The position of Savilian Professor of Geometry was established at the University of Oxford in 1619. It was founded (at the same time as the Savilian Professorship of Astronomy) by Sir Henry Savile, a mathematician and classical scholar who was Warden of Merton College, Oxford, a... | Wikipedia - Savilian Professor of Geometry - Summary | 347 | 1,715 | null |
Section: Foundation and duties. Sir Henry Savile, the Warden of Merton College, Oxford, and Provost of Eton College, was deeply saddened by what the 20th-century mathematician Ida Busbridge has termed "the wretched state of mathematical studies in England", and so founded professorships in geometry and astronomy at the... | Wikipedia - Savilian Professor of Geometry - Foundation and duties | 279 | 1,366 | null |
Section: Appointment. Savile's first choice for the professorship of geometry was Edmund Gunter, Professor of Astronomy at Gresham College, London. It was reported that Gunter demonstrated the use of his sector and quadrant, but Savile regarded this as "showing of tricks" rather than geometry, and instead appointed Hen... | Wikipedia - Savilian Professor of Geometry - Appointment | 316 | 1,552 | null |
The professor was to "lecture and give instruction in pure and analytical Geometry", and was to be a Fellow of New College. The electors for the professorship were to be the Warden of New College (or a person nominated by the college in his place), the Chancellor of the University of Oxford, the President of the Royal ... | Wikipedia - Savilian Professor of Geometry - Appointment | 247 | 1,298 | null |
Section: Professors' house. John Wallis (professor 1649–1703) rented a house from New College on New College Lane from 1672 until his death in 1703; at some point, it was divided into two houses. Towards the end of his life, David Gregory (the Savilian Professor of Astronomy) lived in the eastern part of the premises: ... | Wikipedia - Savilian Professor of Geometry - Professors' house | 334 | 1,680 | null |
Section: Life and career. Walter Warwick Sawyer was born in St. Ives, Hunts, England on April 5, 1911. He attended Highgate School in London. He was an undergraduate at St. John's College, Cambridge, obtaining a BA in 1933 and specializing in quantum theory and relativity. He was an assistant lecturer in mathematics fr... | Wikipedia - Walter Warwick Sawyer - Life and career | 333 | 1,655 | null |
Article: School Mathematics Project. The School Mathematics Project arose in the United Kingdom as part of the new mathematics educational movement of the 1960s. It is a developer of mathematics textbooks for secondary schools, formerly based in Southampton in the UK. Now generally known as SMP, it began as a research ... | Wikipedia - School Mathematics Project - Summary | 191 | 993 | null |
Section: Course books > SMP, Book 3. The computer paper tape motif on early educational material reads "THE SCHOOL MATHEMATICS PROJECT DIRECTED BY BRYAN THWAITES". O O O O O O OO O O O O OO O O O O O O O OOOO O O O O OO O O O O O O O O O O OO O O OO O O O O O O OOO O O O OO O ···········································... | Wikipedia - School Mathematics Project - Course books > SMP, Book 3 | 238 | 585 | null |
Section: Overview. The Sedleian Chair was founded by Sir William Sedley who, by his will dated 20 October 1618, left the sum of £2,000 to the University of Oxford for purchase of lands for its endowment. Sedley's bequest took effect in 1621 with the purchase of an estate at Waddesdon in Buckinghamshire to produce the n... | Wikipedia - Sedleian Professor of Natural Philosophy - Overview | 274 | 1,350 | null |
Section: Life. Shuard was born in Chester on 14 November 1928. She was educated in mathematics at Oxford and Cambridge Universities, and also gained blues in hockey and cricket at Cambridge. Between 1953 and 1959, she taught at Christ's Hospital Hertford before joining the staff of the mathematics department at Homerto... | Wikipedia - Hilary Shuard - Life | 259 | 1,367 | null |
Article: Sixth Term Examination Paper. The Sixth Term Examination Papers in Mathematics, often referred to as STEP, is currently a university admissions test for undergraduate courses with significant mathematical content - most notably for Mathematics at the University of Cambridge. Starting from 2024, STEP will be ad... | Wikipedia - Sixth Term Examination Paper - Summary | 337 | 1,884 | null |
Section: Format. Until 2019, there were three STEPs: STEP 1, STEP 2 and STEP 3. Since the academic year 2019/20, STEP 1 has been phased out. There was no STEP 1 set in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and it was later announced that from 2021, STEP 1 would no longer be set, with only STEP 2 and STEP 3 being available... | Wikipedia - Sixth Term Examination Paper - Format | 320 | 1,545 | null |
Specifically: The STEP 1 specification was based on A Level Mathematics, with some additions and modifications. The paper comprised 11 questions: 8 pure, and 3 further questions on mechanics and probability/statistics, with at least one question of the 3 on mechanics and at least one on probability/statistics. The June... | Wikipedia - Sixth Term Examination Paper - Format | 163 | 849 | null |
Section: Practicalities. Since June 2009, graph paper has not been allowed in STEP as the test requires only sketches, not detailed graphs. Instead, all graphs should be sketched inside the answer booklets provided as part of a candidate's solution. Since June 2018, the format of the answer booklet for the STEP Mathema... | Wikipedia - Sixth Term Examination Paper - Practicalities | 299 | 1,506 | null |
Section: Marking. STEP is marked by teams of mathematicians specially trained for the purpose. All the markers have Mathematics degrees and most are reading for PhDs at Cambridge. Each question is marked by a small team who coordinate to ensure their question is marked fairly and that all correct solutions are given ap... | Wikipedia - Sixth Term Examination Paper - Marking | 188 | 992 | null |
Section: Scoring. There are five possible grades awarded. From best to worst, these are 'S' (Outstanding), '1', '2', '3', and 'U' (Unclassified). The rule of thumb is that four good answers (to a reasonable level of completion) will gain a grade 1; more may gain an S, and fewer will gain a correspondingly lower grade. ... | Wikipedia - Sixth Term Examination Paper - Scoring | 205 | 933 | null |
Section: Preparation. STEP does not require a lot of extra knowledge as they are designed to test skills and knowledge of topics within the A Level syllabus; however, preparation is advised as questions are significantly more challenging than those found in standard A Level examinations. Ideally, students should begin ... | Wikipedia - Sixth Term Examination Paper - Preparation | 158 | 889 | null |
Section: History. The Smith Prize fund was founded by bequest of Robert Smith upon his death in 1768, having by his will left £3,500 of South Sea Company stock to the University. Every year two or more junior Bachelor of Arts students who had made the greatest progress in mathematics and natural philosophy were to be a... | Wikipedia - Smith's Prize - History | 340 | 1,806 | null |
In the twentieth century, the competition stimulated postgraduate research in mathematics in Cambridge and the competition has played a significant role by providing a springboard for graduates considering an academic career. The majority of prize-winners have gone on to become professional mathematicians or physicists... | Wikipedia - Smith's Prize - History | 159 | 855 | null |
Section: J. T. Knight Prize recipients. 1974 Cameron Leigh Stewart Allan J. Clarke 1975 Frank Kelly and Ian Sobey 1976 Trevor McDougall 1977 Gerard Murphy 1981 Bruce Allen and Philip K. Pollett 1983 Ya-xiang Yuan 1985 Reinhard Diestel 1987 Qin Sheng (mathematician) 1988 Somak Raychaudhury 1990 Darryn W. Waugh 1991 Renz... | Wikipedia - Smith's Prize - J. T. Knight Prize recipients | 346 | 971 | null |
Section: Smith–Knight Prize recipients. 1999 D. W. Essex, H. S. Reall, A. Saikia, A. C. Faul, Duncan C. Richer, M. J. Vartiainen, T. A. Fisher, J. Rosenzweig, J. Wierzba and J. B. Gutowski 2001 B. J. Green, T A. Mennim, A. Mijatovic, F. A. Dolan, Paul D. Metcalfe and S. R. Tod 2002 Konstantin Ardakov, Edward Crane and ... | Wikipedia - Smith's Prize - Smith–Knight Prize recipients | 239 | 730 | null |
Section: Rayleigh–Knight Prize recipients. 1999 C. D. Bloor, R. Oeckl, J. Y. Whiston, Y-C. Chen, P. L. Rendon, C. Wunderer, J. H. P. Dawes, D. M. Rodgers, H-M. Gutmann and A. N. Ross 2001 A. F. R. Bain, S. Khan, S. Schafer-Nameki, N. R. Farr, J. Niesen, J. H. Siggers, M. Fayers, D. Oriti, M. J. Tildesley, J. R. Gair, M... | Wikipedia - Smith's Prize - Rayleigh–Knight Prize recipients | 225 | 549 | null |
Article: Anita Straker. Anita Straker is a British mathematics educator who became president of the Mathematical Association for the 1986 term. After teaching maths in schools, Straker became a maths advisor for the county of Wiltshire in the UK and then a school inspector. She went on to pioneer computers in schools f... | Wikipedia - Anita Straker - Summary | 181 | 857 | null |
Section: Career and research. Tayler was a distinguished applied mathematician who made important contributions in a wide range of areas (notably lubrication theory, surface gravity waves and viscous dissipation), but his key contribution to science was as the driving force behind the establishment of what is often cal... | Wikipedia - Alan B. Tayler - Career and research | 291 | 1,496 | null |
Article: Test of Mathematics for University Admission. The Test of Mathematics for University Admission (TMUA) is a test used by universities in the United Kingdom to assess the mathematical thinking and reasoning skills of students applying for undergraduate mathematics courses or courses featuring mathematics like Co... | Wikipedia - Test of Mathematics for University Admission - Summary | 151 | 835 | null |
Section: History. The test was developed by Cambridge Assessment Admissions Testing and launched in 2016. It was designed to assess the key skills that students need to succeed on demanding university-level mathematics courses, and assist university mathematics tutors in making admissions decisions. Durham University a... | Wikipedia - Test of Mathematics for University Admission - History | 158 | 892 | null |
Section: Test format and specification. The Test of Mathematics for University Admission is a paper-based 2 hour and 30 minute long test, which is to be completed without dictionaries or calculators. It has two papers which are taken consecutively: Paper 1: Mathematical Thinking Paper 1 has 20 multiple-choice questions... | Wikipedia - Test of Mathematics for University Admission - Test format and specification | 248 | 1,283 | null |
Article: Trinity Mathematical Society. The Trinity Mathematical Society, abbreviated TMS, was founded in Trinity College, Cambridge in 1919 by G. H. Hardy to "promote the discussion of subjects of mathematical interest". It is the oldest mathematical university society in the United Kingdom and is believed to be the ol... | Wikipedia - Trinity Mathematical Society - Summary | 323 | 1,136 | null |
Section: History. Noting the declining enrollment in STEM subjects at UK universities, a team including author Simon Singh devised the idea with three aims: to encourage undergraduates in those fields to go into teaching, to support teachers and to provide role models for school students who might otherwise never meet ... | Wikipedia - Undergraduate Ambassadors Scheme - History | 277 | 1,490 | null |
Section: History. In July 2018 the Department for Education, with Lord Agnew and Liz Truss, announced plans to establish the University of Liverpool Mathematics College. It would be a maths school offering the subjects of A-Level mathematics, further mathematics, physics, and computer science, and would enrol 80 studen... | Wikipedia - University of Liverpool Mathematics School - History | 318 | 1,638 | null |
Article: Vectorial Mechanics. Vectorial Mechanics (1948) is a book on vector manipulation (i.e., vector methods) by Edward Arthur Milne, a highly decorated (e.g., James Scott Prize Lectureship) British astrophysicist and mathematician. Milne states that the text was due to conversations (circa 1924) with his then-colle... | Wikipedia - Vectorial Mechanics - Summary | 151 | 702 | null |
Section: Summary of reviews. There were significant reviews given near the time of original publication. G.J.Whitrow: Although many books have been published in recent years in which vector and tensor methods are used for solving problems in geometry and mathematical physics, there has been a lack of first-class treati... | Wikipedia - Vectorial Mechanics - Summary of reviews | 344 | 1,738 | null |
Although the necessary existence theorems must be established at a later stage, and Milne's rigorous proofs are particularly welcome, there is no reason why some instances of free vectors should not be mentioned at this point." Daniel C. Lewis: The reviewer has long felt that the role of vector analysis in mechanics ha... | Wikipedia - Vectorial Mechanics - Summary of reviews | 289 | 1,493 | null |
Section: Life. He was born in Westward Ho! in Devon the son of George Wentworth Watson, a schoolmaster and genealogist, and his wife, Mary Justina Griffith. He was educated at St Paul's School in London, as a pupil of F. S. Macaulay. He then studied Mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge. There he encountered E. T. ... | Wikipedia - G. N. Watson - Life | 170 | 777 | null |
Section: Works. His Treatise on the theory of Bessel functions (1922) also became a classic, in particular in regard to the asymptotic expansions of Bessel functions. He subsequently spent many years on Ramanujan's formulae in the area of modular equations, mock theta functions and q-series, and for some time looked af... | Wikipedia - G. N. Watson - Works | 292 | 1,295 | null |
Article: Waynflete Professorship. The Waynflete Professorships are four professorial fellowships at the University of Oxford endowed by Magdalen College and named in honour of the college founder William of Waynflete, who had a great interest in science. These professorships are statutory professorships of the Universi... | Wikipedia - Waynflete Professorship - Summary | 173 | 892 | null |
Article: E. T. Whittaker. Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker (24 October 1873 – 24 March 1956) was a British mathematician, physicist, and historian of science. Whittaker was a leading mathematical scholar of the early 20th century who contributed widely to applied mathematics and was renowned for his research in mathematical... | Wikipedia - E. T. Whittaker - Summary | 344 | 1,772 | null |
Section: Life > Early life and education. Edmund Taylor Whittaker was born in Southport, in Lancashire, the son of Selina Septima (née Taylor) and John Whittaker. He was described as an "extremely delicate child", necessitating his mother to home school him until he was 11 years old, when he was sent off to Manchester ... | Wikipedia - E. T. Whittaker - Life > Early life and education | 345 | 1,637 | null |
Section: Life > Career. Whittaker was a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge from 1896 to 1906 when he was appointed Andrews Professor of Astronomy at Trinity College Dublin and Royal Astronomer of Ireland. He held these posts until 1912, when he was appointed chair of mathematics at the University of Edinburgh, a role... | Wikipedia - E. T. Whittaker - Life > Career | 150 | 811 | null |
Section: Life > Career > Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1896, Whittaker was elected as a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and remained at Cambridge as a teacher until 1906. In 1897, Whittaker was awarded the Smith Prize for his work on the paper "On the connexion of algebraic functions with automorphic functions",... | Wikipedia - E. T. Whittaker - Life > Career > Trinity College, Cambridge | 280 | 1,354 | null |
Section: Life > Career > Trinity College Dublin. In 1906, Whittaker was appointed Andrews Professor of Astronomy at Trinity College Dublin, which came with the title Royal Astronomer of Ireland. He succeeded Charles Jasper Joly at the post and was appointed upon recommendation from the astronomer Robert Stawell Ball. B... | Wikipedia - E. T. Whittaker - Life > Career > Trinity College Dublin | 322 | 1,598 | null |
Section: Life > Career > University of Edinburgh. Whittaker became Professor of Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh in January 1912, where he remained for the rest of his career. The role was left vacant by the death of his predecessor, George Chrystal in 1911. He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of ... | Wikipedia - E. T. Whittaker - Life > Career > University of Edinburgh | 322 | 1,576 | null |
Shortly after coming to Edinburgh, Whittaker established the Edinburgh Mathematical Laboratory, one of the UK's first mathematical laboratories. The laboratory was the first attempt of a systematic treatment of numerical analysis in Great Britain and friends of Whittaker have said he believes it his most notable contri... | Wikipedia - E. T. Whittaker - Life > Career > University of Edinburgh | 218 | 1,199 | null |
Section: Life > Fellowships and academic positions. Outside of the Royal Astronomer of Ireland and his roles in the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Whittaker held several notable academic posts, including president of the Mathematical Association from 1920 through 1921, president of the Mathematical and Physical Section (S... | Wikipedia - E. T. Whittaker - Life > Fellowships and academic positions | 291 | 1,493 | null |
Section: Life > Later life > Christianity. Whittaker was a Christian and became a convert to the Roman Catholic Church in 1930. In relation to that, Pope Pius XI awarded him with the Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice in 1935 and appointed him to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences in 1936. He was a member of the academy from 19... | Wikipedia - E. T. Whittaker - Life > Later life > Christianity | 296 | 1,464 | null |
Section: Life > Later life > Retirement. Whittaker retired from his position as chair of the mathematics department at the University of Edinburgh in September 1946, a role he held for over 33 years. He was awarded emeritus professor status at the university which he retained until his death. In retirement, Whittaker w... | Wikipedia - E. T. Whittaker - Life > Later life > Retirement | 332 | 1,592 | null |
Section: Life > Personal life. In 1901, while at Cambridge, he married Mary Ferguson Macnaghten Boyd, the daughter of a Presbyterian minister and granddaughter of Thomas Jamieson Boyd. They had five children, two daughters and three sons including the mathematician John Macnaghten Whittaker (1905–1984). His elder daugh... | Wikipedia - E. T. Whittaker - Life > Personal life | 343 | 1,567 | null |
Section: Legacy. In addition to his textbooks and other works, several of which remain in print, Whittaker is remembered for his research in automorphic functions, numerical analysis, harmonic analysis, and general relativity. He has several theorems and functions named in his honour. In June 1958, two years after his ... | Wikipedia - E. T. Whittaker - Legacy | 250 | 1,242 | null |
Section: Legacy > Namesakes and notable research. Whittaker is the eponym of the Whittaker function or Whittaker integral, in the theory of confluent hypergeometric functions. This makes him also the eponym of the Whittaker model in the local theory of automorphic representations. He published also on algebraic functio... | Wikipedia - E. T. Whittaker - Legacy > Namesakes and notable research | 201 | 1,013 | null |
Section: Legacy > Notable works. Whittaker wrote three scientific treatises which were highly influential, A Course of Modern Analysis, Analytical Dynamics of Particles and Rigid Bodies, and The Calculus of Observations. In 1956, Gerald James Whitrow stated that two of them not only were required reading for British ma... | Wikipedia - E. T. Whittaker - Legacy > Notable works | 306 | 1,595 | null |
Section: Legacy > Notable works > Whittaker & Watson. Whittaker was the original author of the classic textbook A Course of Modern Analysis, first published in 1902. There were three more editions of the book all in collaboration with George Neville Watson, resulting in the famous colloquial name Whittaker & Watson. Th... | Wikipedia - E. T. Whittaker - Legacy > Notable works > Whittaker & Watson | 251 | 1,307 | null |
Section: Legacy > Notable works > Analytical Dynamics of Particles and Rigid Bodies. Whittaker's second major work, A Treatise on the Analytical Dynamics of Particles and Rigid Bodies was first published in 1904, and quickly became a classic textbook in mathematical physics and analytical dynamics, a branch of classica... | Wikipedia - E. T. Whittaker - Legacy > Notable works > Analytical Dynamics of Particles and Rigid Bodies | 339 | 1,730 | null |
Section: Legacy > Notable works > A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity. In 1910, Whittaker wrote A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity, which gave a detailed account of the aether theories from René Descartes to Hendrik Lorentz and Albert Einstein, including the contributions of Hermann Min... | Wikipedia - E. T. Whittaker - Legacy > Notable works > A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity | 234 | 1,187 | null |
Section: Legacy > Relativity priority dispute. Whittaker is also remembered for his role in the relativity priority dispute, a historical controversy over credit for the development of special relativity. In a chapter named "The Relativity Theory of Poincaré and Lorentz" in the second volume of the second edition of A ... | Wikipedia - E. T. Whittaker - Legacy > Relativity priority dispute | 338 | 1,555 | null |
Section: Philosophy. Whittaker's views on philosophy was analysed by James Robert McConnell for the Whittaker Memorial Volume of the Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society. McConnell noted that Whittaker's research into the connections between physics and philosophy were spread across approximately forty pub... | Wikipedia - E. T. Whittaker - Philosophy | 322 | 1,559 | null |
Section: Awards and honours. In 1931, Whittaker received the Sylvester Medal from the Royal Society for "his original contributions to both pure and applied mathematics". He then received the De Morgan Medal from the London Mathematical Society in 1935, an award given once every three years for outstanding contribution... | Wikipedia - E. T. Whittaker - Awards and honours | 323 | 1,653 | null |
Section: Life. Williams was born on 29 January 1895 in Pimlico, London. She studied in Chelsea and Forest Gate during her childhood, and at the age of 16 began attending Bedford College, University of London for a college degree. At Bedford, one of her mentors was Alfred North Whitehead. She became a grammar school tea... | Wikipedia - Elizabeth Williams (educationist) - Life | 155 | 740 | null |
Section: History. Until 1909, the university made the rankings public. Since 1910, it has publicly revealed only the class of degree gained by each student. An examiner reveals the identity of the Senior Wrangler "unofficially" by tipping his hat when reading out the person's name, but other rankings are communicated t... | Wikipedia - Wrangler (University of Cambridge) - History | 297 | 1,356 | null |
Women had been allowed to take the Tripos since 1881, after Charlotte Angas Scott was unofficially ranked as eighth wrangler. It was recorded that "virtually every high wrangler (for whom records exist) participated in some form of regular physical exercise to preserve his strength and stamina." Obtaining the position ... | Wikipedia - Wrangler (University of Cambridge) - History | 173 | 927 | null |
Section: Past wranglers. Top marks in the Cambridge mathematics exam did not always guarantee the Senior Wrangler success in life; the exams were largely a test of speed in applying familiar rules, and some of the most inventive and original students of Mathematics at Cambridge did not come top of their class. Lord Kel... | Wikipedia - Wrangler (University of Cambridge) - Past wranglers | 244 | 1,148 | null |
Section: In fiction. "The Senior Wrangler" is a member of the faculty of Unseen University in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series of novels. Roger Hamley, a character in Elizabeth Gaskell's Wives and Daughters, achieved the rank of Senior Wrangler. Vivie Warren, the headstrong heroine of George Bernard Shaw's Mrs. Warre... | Wikipedia - Wrangler (University of Cambridge) - In fiction | 334 | 1,378 | null |
In Bram Stoker's The Judge's House, the main character Malcom Malcomson is looking for a quiet place to stay whilst preparing his Mathematical Tripos examinations. Mrs Witham, the inn's landlady, warns Malcom about the judge's house, but the charwoman, Mrs Dempster, dispels these fears – explaining she is not afraid of... | Wikipedia - Wrangler (University of Cambridge) - In fiction | 181 | 692 | null |
Article: Mathematics education in the United States. Mathematics education in the United States varies considerably from one state to the next, and even within a single state. With the adoption of the Common Core Standards in most states and the District of Columbia beginning in 2010, mathematics content across the cou... | Wikipedia - Mathematics education in the United States - Summary | 345 | 1,910 | null |
Department of Education, passing rigorous high-school mathematics courses predicts successful completion of university programs regardless of major or family income. Meanwhile, the number of eighth-graders enrolled in Algebra I has fallen between the early 2010s and early 2020s. Across the United States, there is a sho... | Wikipedia - Mathematics education in the United States - Summary | 288 | 1,582 | null |
Section: Curricular content and standards. Each U.S. state sets its own curricular standards, and details are usually set by each local school district. Although there are no federal standards, since 2015 most states have based their curricula on the Common Core State Standards in mathematics. The stated goal of the Co... | Wikipedia - Mathematics education in the United States - Curricular content and standards | 302 | 1,661 | null |
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