“A Senior Wrangler Among Senior Wranglers”: The Mathematical Education of Robert Leslie Ellis

Barrow-Green, June (2022). “A Senior Wrangler Among Senior Wranglers”: The Mathematical Education of Robert Leslie Ellis. In: Verburgt, Lukas M. ed. A Prodigy of Universal Genius: Robert Leslie Ellis, 1817-1859. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 55. Cham: Springer, pp. 21–49.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85258-0_2

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This chapter charts Ellis’s mathematical education, from his childhood in Bath under the tutelage of Thomas Stephens Davies to the end of his student days at Cambridge when, in January 1840, he graduated as senior wrangler.

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