Philippa Garrett Fawcett (4 April 1868 – 10 June 1948) was an English mathematician and educator. She was the first woman to obtain the top score in the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos exams. #WomanToday
October 1, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Philippa Garrett Fawcett (4 April 1868 – 10 June 1948) was an English mathematician and educator. She was the first woman to obtain the top score in the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos exams. #WomanToday
DAY 306
SPECIES 306 - Tripos fusus
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek & QoR watercolor, Sakura pen
T. fusus is a marine, planktonic, armored dinoflagellate with an elongated spindle shaped body
#sciart #watercolor #painting #art #paint #protist #eukaryotic #protistsonsky
SPECIES 306 - Tripos fusus
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek & QoR watercolor, Sakura pen
T. fusus is a marine, planktonic, armored dinoflagellate with an elongated spindle shaped body
#sciart #watercolor #painting #art #paint #protist #eukaryotic #protistsonsky
April 7, 2026 at 7:18 AM
DAY 306
SPECIES 306 - Tripos fusus
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek & QoR watercolor, Sakura pen
T. fusus is a marine, planktonic, armored dinoflagellate with an elongated spindle shaped body
#sciart #watercolor #painting #art #paint #protist #eukaryotic #protistsonsky
SPECIES 306 - Tripos fusus
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek & QoR watercolor, Sakura pen
T. fusus is a marine, planktonic, armored dinoflagellate with an elongated spindle shaped body
#sciart #watercolor #painting #art #paint #protist #eukaryotic #protistsonsky
Always a pleasure to see a Tripos sp. dinoflagellate in one of my samples. I don’t see them too often so when I spot one I do get a little excited!
#marineplankton 🦑
#marineplankton 🦑
December 20, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Always a pleasure to see a Tripos sp. dinoflagellate in one of my samples. I don’t see them too often so when I spot one I do get a little excited!
#marineplankton 🦑
#marineplankton 🦑
DAY 308
SPECIES 308 - Tripos muelleri
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek watercolor, Sakura pen
T. muelleri is a marine planktonic dinoflagellate renowned for its distinct, pitchfork shaped silhouette.
#sciart #watercolor #painting #art #paint #protist #eukaryotic #protistsonsky
SPECIES 308 - Tripos muelleri
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek watercolor, Sakura pen
T. muelleri is a marine planktonic dinoflagellate renowned for its distinct, pitchfork shaped silhouette.
#sciart #watercolor #painting #art #paint #protist #eukaryotic #protistsonsky
April 9, 2026 at 7:28 AM
DAY 308
SPECIES 308 - Tripos muelleri
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek watercolor, Sakura pen
T. muelleri is a marine planktonic dinoflagellate renowned for its distinct, pitchfork shaped silhouette.
#sciart #watercolor #painting #art #paint #protist #eukaryotic #protistsonsky
SPECIES 308 - Tripos muelleri
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek watercolor, Sakura pen
T. muelleri is a marine planktonic dinoflagellate renowned for its distinct, pitchfork shaped silhouette.
#sciart #watercolor #painting #art #paint #protist #eukaryotic #protistsonsky
Mathematician Charlotte Angas Scott was born 168 years ago today. Known mainly for her feat of achieving 8th Wrangler in the 1880 Tripos Exam, she should be equally remembered for her years of building foundational mathematical institutions in the United States.
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The Englishwoman in America: Charlotte Angas Scott and the Development of American Mathematics
In 1885, when you heard the term ‘mathematical epicentre’ one of the last places that would have been brought to mind was the United States. Sure, it had a handful of locally distinguished minds to it...
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June 8, 2026 at 2:22 PM
Mathematician Charlotte Angas Scott was born 168 years ago today. Known mainly for her feat of achieving 8th Wrangler in the 1880 Tripos Exam, she should be equally remembered for her years of building foundational mathematical institutions in the United States.
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#WomenInSTEM
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DAY 307
SPECIES 307 - Tripos furca
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek & QoR watercolor, Sakura & Charsoco pen
T. furca is a species of armored marine dinoflagellate
#sciart #watercolor #painting #art #paint #protist #eukaryotic #protistsonsky
SPECIES 307 - Tripos furca
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek & QoR watercolor, Sakura & Charsoco pen
T. furca is a species of armored marine dinoflagellate
#sciart #watercolor #painting #art #paint #protist #eukaryotic #protistsonsky
April 8, 2026 at 7:35 AM
DAY 307
SPECIES 307 - Tripos furca
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek & QoR watercolor, Sakura & Charsoco pen
T. furca is a species of armored marine dinoflagellate
#sciart #watercolor #painting #art #paint #protist #eukaryotic #protistsonsky
SPECIES 307 - Tripos furca
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek & QoR watercolor, Sakura & Charsoco pen
T. furca is a species of armored marine dinoflagellate
#sciart #watercolor #painting #art #paint #protist #eukaryotic #protistsonsky
I always enjoyed that myth that Cambridge let his bodyguards do Tripos as they’d say in on all his tutorials etc and that they got 2:1s where he got a 3rd
August 13, 2026 at 9:38 AM
I always enjoyed that myth that Cambridge let his bodyguards do Tripos as they’d say in on all his tutorials etc and that they got 2:1s where he got a 3rd
Today we celebrate the birthday of two important mathematicians - Tripos trailblazer, algebraic geometrist, and Bryn Mawr legend Charlotte Angas Scott (born 1858) and polytope pioneer Alicia Boole Stott (born 1860)!
#WomenInSTEM #MathSky #HistSci #BookSky 🧮
#WomenInSTEM #MathSky #HistSci #BookSky 🧮
June 8, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Today we celebrate the birthday of two important mathematicians - Tripos trailblazer, algebraic geometrist, and Bryn Mawr legend Charlotte Angas Scott (born 1858) and polytope pioneer Alicia Boole Stott (born 1860)!
#WomenInSTEM #MathSky #HistSci #BookSky 🧮
#WomenInSTEM #MathSky #HistSci #BookSky 🧮
DAY 415
SPECIES 415 - Tripos gravidus
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek watercolor, Sakura pen
T. gravidus is a large marine dinoflagellate species with a rounded swollen head that looks like a spatula, with two tapered antapical horns below
#sciart #watercolor #paint #eukaryotic #protistsonsky
SPECIES 415 - Tripos gravidus
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek watercolor, Sakura pen
T. gravidus is a large marine dinoflagellate species with a rounded swollen head that looks like a spatula, with two tapered antapical horns below
#sciart #watercolor #paint #eukaryotic #protistsonsky
July 25, 2026 at 7:40 AM
DAY 415
SPECIES 415 - Tripos gravidus
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek watercolor, Sakura pen
T. gravidus is a large marine dinoflagellate species with a rounded swollen head that looks like a spatula, with two tapered antapical horns below
#sciart #watercolor #paint #eukaryotic #protistsonsky
SPECIES 415 - Tripos gravidus
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek watercolor, Sakura pen
T. gravidus is a large marine dinoflagellate species with a rounded swollen head that looks like a spatula, with two tapered antapical horns below
#sciart #watercolor #paint #eukaryotic #protistsonsky
In 1890, Fawcett became the first woman to obtain the top score in the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos exam, but since she could not receive a degree from Cambridge due to being a woman, she could not be the senior wrangler.
October 1, 2026 at 1:00 PM
In 1890, Fawcett became the first woman to obtain the top score in the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos exam, but since she could not receive a degree from Cambridge due to being a woman, she could not be the senior wrangler.
I have waited 3 YEARS to see one of these!! I’m wondering if this is Tripos longipes? I’d love your thoughts. Including apical horn it is 194 um long, and NOT including hypothecal horns it’s 53 um wide. Southern North Sea. Image is stacked. I’m so happy to have finally seen one! 🦑
January 2, 2025 at 10:06 AM
I have waited 3 YEARS to see one of these!! I’m wondering if this is Tripos longipes? I’d love your thoughts. Including apical horn it is 194 um long, and NOT including hypothecal horns it’s 53 um wide. Southern North Sea. Image is stacked. I’m so happy to have finally seen one! 🦑
Following Fawcett's achievement in the Tripos, she won the Marion Kennedy scholarship at Cambridge through which she conducted research in fluid dynamics. Her published papers include "Note on the Motion of Solids in a Liquid".
October 1, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Following Fawcett's achievement in the Tripos, she won the Marion Kennedy scholarship at Cambridge through which she conducted research in fluid dynamics. Her published papers include "Note on the Motion of Solids in a Liquid".
I did my theology tripos via Clare Cambridge and if I’m honest I’ve never felt all that much of a connection to the college; I didn’t spend much time there except in chapel as I lived at Westcott. But I am pleased that it gives me a connection with one of its finest graduates, David Attenborough.
May 8, 2026 at 7:39 AM
I did my theology tripos via Clare Cambridge and if I’m honest I’ve never felt all that much of a connection to the college; I didn’t spend much time there except in chapel as I lived at Westcott. But I am pleased that it gives me a connection with one of its finest graduates, David Attenborough.
categories of stigmatized failure. School and examination systems pretty much designed to traumatize a certai proportion. E.g. history of Cambridge math tripos full of stories of breakdowns, and this was seen as a feature, a way of selecting the toughest.
February 12, 2025 at 8:48 PM
categories of stigmatized failure. School and examination systems pretty much designed to traumatize a certai proportion. E.g. history of Cambridge math tripos full of stories of breakdowns, and this was seen as a feature, a way of selecting the toughest.
From a large, local, and unusual, bloom of the dinoflagellate Tripos muelleri in 2023. I trapped some cells in agar microwells to see if I could catch them dividing in a long timelapse. Those wells are 250 microns in diameter: the cells are large! #protistaday #protistsonsky #marinelife
December 2, 2024 at 12:36 PM
From a large, local, and unusual, bloom of the dinoflagellate Tripos muelleri in 2023. I trapped some cells in agar microwells to see if I could catch them dividing in a long timelapse. Those wells are 250 microns in diameter: the cells are large! #protistaday #protistsonsky #marinelife
Among other roles at Cambridge he's the paper coordinator for A9 Ethics in the first year of the Divinity Tripos.
Scope for some relevant question setting, I think.
Scope for some relevant question setting, I think.
September 4, 2026 at 10:13 AM
Among other roles at Cambridge he's the paper coordinator for A9 Ethics in the first year of the Divinity Tripos.
Scope for some relevant question setting, I think.
Scope for some relevant question setting, I think.
Someone in Cambridge is currently checking the Statutes veeeery carefully just in case there ain't no rule says a 5m saltwater crocodile can't take the Tripos.
March 26, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Someone in Cambridge is currently checking the Statutes veeeery carefully just in case there ain't no rule says a 5m saltwater crocodile can't take the Tripos.
Found out in #MathsToday that Cambridge have announced that they will now use both the TMUA *and* STEP for entry to the Mathematical Tripos from 2027 which follows Oxford’s decision to swap MAT for TMUA last month. #ALevelMaths teachers take note, source here: www.christs.cam.ac.uk/study-here/u...
February 12, 2026 at 6:12 PM
Found out in #MathsToday that Cambridge have announced that they will now use both the TMUA *and* STEP for entry to the Mathematical Tripos from 2027 which follows Oxford’s decision to swap MAT for TMUA last month. #ALevelMaths teachers take note, source here: www.christs.cam.ac.uk/study-here/u...
Mathematician Ada Isabel Maddison was born 157 years ago today. In 1892 she took the Tripos and would have been 27th Wrangler, but on account of her gender she was not given the degree she had earned. She spent 3 decades at Bryn Mawr as a teacher and admin, retiring in 1926.
#WomenInSTEM #MathSky 🧮
#WomenInSTEM #MathSky 🧮
April 12, 2026 at 3:33 PM
Mathematician Ada Isabel Maddison was born 157 years ago today. In 1892 she took the Tripos and would have been 27th Wrangler, but on account of her gender she was not given the degree she had earned. She spent 3 decades at Bryn Mawr as a teacher and admin, retiring in 1926.
#WomenInSTEM #MathSky 🧮
#WomenInSTEM #MathSky 🧮
Cambridge Econ Tripos 1959.
Have a go. Tell us how you do.
Have a go. Tell us how you do.
July 20, 2026 at 11:54 PM
Cambridge Econ Tripos 1959.
Have a go. Tell us how you do.
Have a go. Tell us how you do.
Minterne Magna, Dorset. At the University of Cambridge, a "Wrangler" is a student who gains first-class honours in the Mathematical Tripos competition
June 22, 2026 at 2:26 PM
Minterne Magna, Dorset. At the University of Cambridge, a "Wrangler" is a student who gains first-class honours in the Mathematical Tripos competition
I've posted this before, but my Dad's O-Level Latin teacher HATED Enoch Powell, but for the unorthodox reason that they'd been in the same year at Cambridge, and Powell's brilliant performance bested him in Tripos, when he'd have comfortably come top in any other year. Resented him for it massively.
May 21, 2025 at 1:29 PM
I've posted this before, but my Dad's O-Level Latin teacher HATED Enoch Powell, but for the unorthodox reason that they'd been in the same year at Cambridge, and Powell's brilliant performance bested him in Tripos, when he'd have comfortably come top in any other year. Resented him for it massively.
She got first place in her first-year examinations at Queen's in 1884, but the university would not award the prize to a woman.
She studied maths at Cambridge from 1886 to 1889 and passed the Tripos but was not awarded a degree, because Cambridge did not award degrees to women until 1928.
She studied maths at Cambridge from 1886 to 1889 and passed the Tripos but was not awarded a degree, because Cambridge did not award degrees to women until 1928.
August 20, 2025 at 11:48 AM
She got first place in her first-year examinations at Queen's in 1884, but the university would not award the prize to a woman.
She studied maths at Cambridge from 1886 to 1889 and passed the Tripos but was not awarded a degree, because Cambridge did not award degrees to women until 1928.
She studied maths at Cambridge from 1886 to 1889 and passed the Tripos but was not awarded a degree, because Cambridge did not award degrees to women until 1928.
La matemática Philippa Garrett Fawcett (1868-1948) falleció un 10 de junio.
Tras su extraordinario éxito en el Mathematical Tripos, ganó una beca en la U de Cambridge, gracias a la cual investigó sobre dinámica de fluidos.
Tras su extraordinario éxito en el Mathematical Tripos, ganó una beca en la U de Cambridge, gracias a la cual investigó sobre dinámica de fluidos.
Philippa Garrett Fawcett, matemática - Mujeres con ciencia
Philippa Garrett Fawcett. Matemáticas. Mathematical Tripos. Dinámica de fluidos. Educación matemática.
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June 10, 2025 at 11:30 AM
La matemática Philippa Garrett Fawcett (1868-1948) falleció un 10 de junio.
Tras su extraordinario éxito en el Mathematical Tripos, ganó una beca en la U de Cambridge, gracias a la cual investigó sobre dinámica de fluidos.
Tras su extraordinario éxito en el Mathematical Tripos, ganó una beca en la U de Cambridge, gracias a la cual investigó sobre dinámica de fluidos.
La mujer que superó a los hombres en matemáticas
La mujer que superó a los hombres en matemáticas - Mujeres con ciencia
Philippa Garrett Fawcett. Mathematical Tripos. Charlotte Angas Scott. Elizabeth Garrett Anderson. A Newnham Antology.
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June 10, 2025 at 1:03 PM
La mujer que superó a los hombres en matemáticas