Charlotte Angas Scott was a British mathematician who made her career in the United States and was influential in the development of American mathematics, including the mathematical education of women. Scott played an important role in Cambridge changing the rules for its famous Mathematical Tripos exam.
Charlotte Angas Scott
The Mathematical Tripos is the mathematics course that is taught in the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge.
Results for parts II and III of the Mathematical Tripos are read out inside the Senate House, Cambridge, and then, tossed from the balcony.
Wooden Spoon award, 1910