by samsurikamal
As one of the oldest universities in the world (founded in
1209), Cambridge is an ancient school steeped in tradition.
It is small exaggeration to say the history of western
science is built on a cornerstone called Cambridge. The roster of great
scientists and mathematicians associated with the university includes Francis
Bacon, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, James Clerk Maxwell, Augustus De Morgan,
Ernest Rutherford, G.H. Hardy, Srinivasa Ramanujan, Alan Turing, Francis Crick,
James Watson, Roger Penrose, and Stephen Hawking. Whether speaking of the
unifying ideas in physics, the foundations of computer science, or the
codifying of biology, Cambridge has been at the forefront of humanity’s quest
for truth longer than most nations have existed.
Of course, great achievements are not restricted to the
sciences. Such luminaries in the humanities as Desiderius Erasmus, John Milton,
G.E. Moore, Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein, John Maynard Keynes, and
C.S. Lewis, among dozens of other great names, taught and studied here.
But despite the many memories conjured by its imposing
Gothic architecture, Cambridge does not live in the past. The university
remains one of the world’s elite research institutions, with only Oxford to
rival it in the U.K. and only a handful of American schools able to do so from overseas.
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