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Record W1489051311

Wranglers in exile

2011· book-chapter· en· W1489051311 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
June Barrow‐Green

Bibliographic record

VenueOxford University Press eBooks · 2011
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldPhysics and Astronomy
TopicHistory and Developments in Astronomy
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsColonialismColonial periodPeriod (music)HistoryPolitical scienceEconomic historyGeographyMedia studiesSociologyLawArt
DOInot available

Abstract

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After the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815, Britain began a period of Imperial expansion tht continued throughout the Victorian era. As the colonies grew, so did the number of colonial institutions of higher education. For founders of mathematics departments looking to perpetuate the tradition of the mother country, Cambridge was the obvious model to follow, and many new colonial universities, especially those in Australia, provided a source of employment for Cambridge wranglers. Mathematics graduates from Scotland also found their way overseas, notably to New Zealand and South Africa. India provided employment not only on the sub-Continent, but in England too, the latter throught the mathematics departments of the East India Company's training colleges of Addiscombe and Haileybury and the Royal Indian Engineering College at Cooper's Hill. Meanwhile Canada, with its older tradition of higher education, did not so much provide employment for wranglers, as a place for them to visit. The British Association meetings held in Montreal (1884) and Toronto (1897) were the first to be held on foreign soil, and several mathematicians took the opportunity to make the trip across the Atlantic.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.994
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.023
GPT teacher head0.183
Teacher spread0.160 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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