with two decks of cards and involving elementary modular arithmetic. Literary references Fictional Senior Wranglers appearing in novels include Roger Hamley, a character in Elizabeth Gaskell's Wives and Daughters, and Tom Jericho, the cryptanalyst in Robert Harris's novel Enigma, who is described as having been Senior Wrangler in 1938. In Catherine Hall's The Proof of Love, Victor Turner is listed as having been Senior Wrangler in 1968. In George Bernard Shaw's play Mrs. Warren's Profession, the title character's daughter Vivie is praised for "tieing with the third wrangler," and she comments that "the mathematical tripos" means "grind, grind, grind for six to eight hours a day at mathematics, and nothing but mathematics." In Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End, the character Christopher Tietjens is described as having settled deliberately for only being Second Wrangler, in order to avoid the weight of expectation that the title would create. In his Discworld series of novels, Terry Pratchett has a character called the Senior Wrangler, a faculty member at the Unseen University, whose first name is Horace. The compiler of crosswords for The Leader in the 1930s used 'Senior Wrangler' as a pseudonym. Coaches The two most successful 19th-century coaches of Senior Wranglers were William Hopkins and Edward Routh. Hopkins, the 'Senior Wrangler Maker', who himself was the 7th Wrangler, coached 17 Senior Wranglers. Routh, who had himself been the Senior Wrangler, coached 27. Another, described by his student (and Senior Wrangler) J.E. Littlewood as "the last of the great coaches", was another Senior Wrangler, Robert Alfred Herman. Senior Wranglers and runners up, 1748–1909 During 1748–1909, the top two colleges in terms of number of Senior Wranglers were Trinity and St John's with 56 and 54 respectively. Gonville and Caius was third with 13. Senior Wranglers since 1910 Senior Wranglers since 1910 also include: David Hobson (Christ's College) (1940s) Peter Swinnerton-Dyer (Trinity College) (1940s) Jack Leeming (St John's College) Michael Hall (Trinity College) (1950s) See also Wooden spoon (award) Notes References Bibliography History of the University of Cambridge Lists of people associated with the University of Cambridge Lists of mathematicians by award