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Philippa Fawcett

was born 157 years ago

4 April 1868

In 1890 Philippa Fawcett came top in the Mathematical Tripos Examinations at Cambridge, being placed "ahead of the first Wrangler".

Find out more at: https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Fawcett/