The Principles of the Solution of the Senate-House 'Riders: Exemplified by the Solution of Those Proposed in the Earlier Parts of the Examinations of the Years 1848 1851 (Classic Reprint)

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The Report of the Mathematical Board annually calls the attention of the Mathematical Students of this University to the importance of the Examples appended to the book-work questions in the senate-house Examination Papers. The Board conceives that these Examples, or Riders, to use the more familiar term, afford a searching test of the merits of the candidates, and are peculiarly adapted to call forth an exhibition of style, which it must be allowed indicates the mathematician far more than a mere knowledge of books; and so high does it estimate their importance, that it has repeatedly recommended a diminution of the book-work questions in the Senate - House papers, in order to allow the admission of a larger number of Riders.

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