SENATE-HOUSE EXAMINATION PAPERS, 1821 To 1836 INCLUSIVE, SIMILARLY ARRANGED. PRINTED FOR W. P. GRANT; WHITTAKER & CO. LONDON. MDCCCXXXVII. PREFACE. IT is scarce necessary to observe, that during the student's preparation for mathematical honors in the University of Cambridge, he is obliged to have frequent recourse to papers of examination questions, in order to satisfy himself and his instructors as to the degree of proficiency he may have attained. With the same object in view, it has now become the universal practice of those engaged in mathematical tuition, to draw up papers for the pupils under their charge; and in doing this, it is most important that the questions should be carefully chosen, and as much as possible of the same character as those usually proposed to students when they ultimately present themselves candidates for mathematical honors. The papers of questions which have actually been set from time to time, at the Senate-House examinations, have long been in use among the members of the university for the above purposes; it being justly argued, that the importance of the |