Re: [HM] Where have all those cowboys gone?

Ralph A. Raimi (rarm@db1.cc.rochester.edu)
Wed, 21 Oct 1998 20:16:16 -0400 (EDT)

On Thu, 22 Oct 1998, J F Harper wrote:
> the usual joke was that a Senior Wrangler was more likely to end up
> as Lord Chancellor than as a distinguished mathematician.

I recall reading somewhere that John Maynard Keynes was Senior
Wrangler. Is this so? (There is no mention of it in the biographical note
I happen to have here, though he was in mathematics there.)

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