Senior Wrangler
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The Senior Wrangler is the top mathematics undergraduate at the University of Cambridge in England, a position which has been described as "the greatest intellectual achievement attainable in Britain"
1842 in the Senate House, Cambridge: the Senior Wrangler, achiever of "academic supremacy" (here, Arthur Cayley), is admitted to his degree as the top scorer in the university's final-year examinations in mathematics.
Sir Frederick Pollock, 1st Baronet, Senior Wrangler, 1806.
John Herschel, Senior Wrangler, 1813.
George Biddell Airy, Senior Wrangler, 1823.
Ben Green (mathematician)
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Ben Joseph Green FRS is a British mathematician specialising in combinatorics and number theory. He is the Waynflete Professor of Pure Mathematics at the University of Oxford.
Senior Wrangler
…Herschel and Sir George Biddell Airy; physicists Sir Gilbert Walker, Sir George Stokes and Lord Rayleigh; and pure mathematicians like Arthur Cayley, Ben Green and John Edensor Littlewood. Senior Wranglers were once fêted with torchlit processions and took pride of place in the university's graduation ceremony…
Green in 2010