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Tripos paper
Tripos Tri"pos, n.; pl. Triposes. [Gr. ? a tripod. See Tripod.] 1. A tripod. [Obs.] --Dryden. 2. A university examination of questionists, for honors; also, a tripos paper; one who prepares a tripos paper. [Cambridge University, Eng.] Classical tripos examination, the final university examination for classical honors, optional to all who have taken the mathematical honors. --C. A. Bristed. Tripos paper, a printed list of the successful candidates for mathematical honors, accompanied by a piece in Latin verse. There are two of these, designed to commemorate the two tripos days. The first contains the names of the wranglers and senior optimes, and the second the names of the junior optimes. The word tripos is supposed to refer to the three-legged stool formerly used at the examinations for these honors, though some derive it from the three brackets formerly printed on the back of the paper. --C. A. Bristed.

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- Part III of the Mathematical Tripos (officially Master of Mathematics/Master of Advanced Study) is a one-year master's-level taught course in mathematics...
- University admissions tests in the United Kingdom Cambridge Mathematical Tripos "Heard from all your chosen unis?". UCAS. 17 October 2014. Retrieved 28...
- The university's examination in mathematics, known as the Mathematical Tripos, was initially compulsory for all undergraduates studying for the Bachelor...
- exhibition to Trinity College, Cambridge. He graduated in the Mathematical Tripos, with a First in Part II in 1937 and a Distinction in Part III in 1938....
- 1892 he received 1st class honours in both parts of the Natural Science Tripos. He became particularly interested in meteorology, and in 1893 he began...
- John Henry Pelly, 1st Baronet. Miss Reynolds was a Cambridge Mathematics Tripos graduate and at Cambridge was the best woman mathematician of her year....
- the Tripos exams in Lent term 1873, Rachel Cook and Lumsden, who both took the classical Tripos, as well as Woodhead, who took the Mathematical Tripos, were...
- Trinity College, Cambridge, where he read mathematics for Part I of the Tripos (emerging as fifteenth Wrangler) and history for Part II. At Cambridge he...
- Cambridge to study natural sciences. In 1884 he received a BA (Natural Sciences Tripos) from the University of Cambridge as well as a BSc from the University College...
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