The Mayhew Prize is a prize awarded annually by the Faculty of Mathematics, University of Cambridge to the student showing the greatest distinction in applied mathematics, primarily for courses offered by DAMTP , but also for some courses offered by the Statistical Laboratory, in the MASt examinations, also known as Part III of the Mathematical Tripos . This includes about half of all students taking the Tripos Math exam, since the rest are taking mainly pure mathematics courses. Since 2018 the Faculty have also awarded the Pure Mathematics Prize for pure mathematics, but due to an absence of funds there is no equivalent monetary reward.
6-669: The Mayhew Prize was founded in 1923 through a donation of £500 by William Loudon Mollison , Master of Clare College , in memory of his wife Ellen Mayhew (1846–1917). Most of this list is from The Times newspaper archive. The winners of the prize are published in the Cambridge University Reporter . This article relating to the University of Cambridge is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . William Loudon Mollison William Loudon Mollison (19 September 1851 – 10 March 1929)
12-457: Was a Scottish mathematician and academic. From 1915 to 1929, he was Master of Clare College, Cambridge . Mollison was born on 19 September 1851 in Aberdeen , Scotland. He was educated at Aberdeen Grammar School , then an all-boys grammar school. He studied mathematics and natural philosophy at the University of Aberdeen , graduating in 1872 with a first class degree. That year, he
18-406: Was an examiner for the University of St Andrews between 1876 and 1880. He was a mathematics lecturer at Jesus College, Cambridge from 1877 to 1882, and at Clare College from 1882. In addition to his college teaching, he was a private tutor or "coach" in mathematics. Due to ill health, he moved from teaching a large number of students, privately and through his college, into administration. He
24-775: Was appointed junior tutor of Clare College in 1880, and was made its senior tutor in May 1894. He was elected a member of the Council of the Senate of the University Of Cambridge in 1892, and appointed Secretary of the General Board of Studies of the University in 1904: he stepped down from both these posts in 1920. He served as locum tenens for the then Master (Edward Atkinson) from 1913 to 1915. Mollison
30-542: Was awarded the Ferguson Scholarship by Aberdeen and matriculated into Clare College, Cambridge to continue his mathematical studies. He became a Foundation Scholar in 1873. His private tutor while at Cambridge was Edward Routh . He graduated from the University of Cambridge in 1876 as the Second Wrangler . On 29 April 1876, Mollison was elected a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge . He
36-520: Was unanimously elected as Atkinson successor as the 38th Master of Clare College, Cambridge in March 1915. Mollison was married to Ellen Mayhew. They had one son and two daughters, one of whom pre-deceased him. His wife died in 1917, and he provided the endowment for the Mayhew Prize , a mathematics prize awarded by the University of Cambridge, in her honour. His son, William Mayhew Mollison,
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