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June Barrow-Green (The Open University)
Wednesday 30 April 2025, 11:45-12:45
Tripos and Tribunals: The Wartime Diary of a Cambridge Senior Wrangler
⚠️ Important: MHMW02 - Modern History of Mathematics: Looking Ahead
- 👤 Speaker: June Barrow-Green (The Open University)
- 📅 Date & Time: Wednesday 30 April 2025, 11:45 - 12:45
- 📍 Venue: Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute
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Abstract
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.
Series This talk is part of the Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series series.
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