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SUMMARY:Tripos and Tribunals:  The Wartime Diary of a Cambridge Senior W
 rangler - June Barrow-Green (The Open University)
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DESCRIPTION:From 1 January 1915 to 29 July 1916\, Francis Puryer White (18
 93-1969)\, a third-year Cambridge mathematics student\, kept a detailed di
 ary.&nbsp\; In it he chronicled his academic\, spiritual\, and recreationa
 l life as he passed from undergraduate to postgraduate under the cloud of 
 the First World War.&nbsp\; In my talk I shall describe some of the conten
 ts of White&rsquo\;s diary\, prefaced by a few remarks about diaries as so
 urces in history of mathematics.\n&nbsp\;
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Newton Institute
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