Help help help

[erastes]

OK - So I've hit a stumbling block with my book. *hates research hate hate
hate*

I have a boy who wants to go to Oxbridge - this is 1960...

He's got an engineering kind of mind, but I don't think degrees in
"Engineering" were actually offered until the 1990's - so what sort of
carreer path would he have? anyone know?

Degree in Maths? or Physics? Then what? Not an apprentice?

Comments

[cloudofcalm.livejournal.com]

Physics might be a good idea... My uncle is now in engineering and architecture, went to Cambridge to study Pure and Applied Maths at Clare College. He would've gone around the time you're talking about, early sixties - and he then went on, found a job and went into engineering via the vocation.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I do like the sound of Pure and Applied Maths... So sexy!

Although PLEASE I hope to god my protagonist never wants to have a bloody conversation about it!!!

Thank you!

[aunty_marion]

Don't remind me, I did Pure & Applied Maths for A-level! However, since the Applied part was almost identical to O-level Physics (at least in our syllabuseseses), and I never could quite get the hang of calculus in the Pure part, I am occasionally still amused to have achieved an O-level Pass in it. In a subject one couldn't (at the time) do at O-level.

[cloudofcalm.livejournal.com]

http://www.admissions.ox.ac.uk/courses/math.shtml

Hee, maths is actually fun to discuss, at times. Various quirks and so on. He'd be nicknamed a 'mathmo' at uni, actually - short for mathematician, and the interview process generally involves a discussion with the tutors, and doing a mathematical problem publically while explaining reasoning, or so I'm told.