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Re: Boat Race


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Posted by Paul Crisp on April 14, 2015 at 04:14:06 user Paul_Crisp.

In Reply to: Re: Boat Race posted by Robert Hill on April 13, 2015 at 14:57:19:

Much of C. P. Snow's The Affair is also set in his old college and involves members from The Masters. Snow also wrote the inroduction to G. H. Hardy's A Mathematician's Apology - if I remember, the introduction is almost as long as the Apology!
To redress the Oxford body count, the Cambridge Crime Series reprinted by Ostara Publications are classics which first appeared in the 20s and 30s. They are displayed in Heffers and I usually buy one whenever I am in Cambridge.
For something more serious, The Cambridge Quintet by John Casti is worth reading. It is described as 'a work of scientfic speculation' and takes place at a dinner in college hosted by Snow for Turing, Haldane, Schrodinger and Wittgenstein.


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