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THE death on Jan. 19 of Frank Plumpton Ramsey at the early age of twenty-six has cut short a life which bore exceptional promise of eminence in mathematics and philosophy. The elder son of Arthur Stanley Ramsey, now President of Magdalene College, and the author of well-known treatises upon subjects in applied mathematics, Frank Ramsey was born in 1903 and passed his boyhood in Cambridge. From King's College Choir School he became first a scholar of Winchester, and then a scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge: in 1923 he graduated in the first class of the Mathematical Tripos, with distinction, and in 1924 was elected to the Allen (University) Scholarship. At the time of his death he held a University lectureship in the Faculty of Mathematics, and was a fellow and director of studies at King's College, Cambridge.
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Mr. F. P. Ramsey. Nature 125, 245–246 (1930). https://doi.org/10.1038/125245b0
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