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Excerpt from A History of the Study of Mathematics at Cambridge I have therefore added in chapter XI. (as a sort of appendix) a very brief sketch of the general history of the university for any of my readers who may not be acquainted with the larger works which deal with that subject. I hope that the addition of the chapter and of the similar chapter dealing with the organization of studies in the mediæval university will sufficiently justify me in the use in the earlier chapters of various technical words, such as regents, caput, tripos, prævaricator, &c. I have tried to give references in the footnotes to the authorities on which I have mainly relied. In the few cases where no reference is inserted, I have had to compile my account from various sources. Of the numerous dictionaries of biography which I have consulted the only ones which have proved of much use are the Biographica Britannica, six volumes, London, 1747 - 66 (second edition, enlarged, letters A to Fas only, five volumes, 1778 - 93); the Penny Cyclopaedia, twenty-seven volumes, London, 1833 - 43; J. C. Poggendorff's Biographisch-Literarisches Handwörterbuch zur Geschichte der exacten Wissenschaften, two volumes, Leipzig, 1863; and the new Dictionary of national biography, which at present only contains references to those whose names commence with one of the early letters of the alphabet. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are i