TITLE: Where can I find the old papers of the Math Tripos?
QUESTION [35 upvotes]: Is there a repository on the Internet which has the old question papers of the tripos? I am specifically interested in the papers during the 1890-1910 era, which was the era before the reforms, although I'm also interested in the other, more recent papers.
Most of the problems which I have come across from the pre-reform era are very interesting, and it would be wonderful if the actual full papers are accessible now.
Thanks in advance!

REPLY [14 votes]: There are dozens of books which contain papers and solutions. The exam used to be called the senate-house examination a while ago, hence the titles. 'Tripos' is derived from the way the exam was taken, where you had to sit on a 3-legged wooden stool and "wrangle" - argue through problems orally - with the examiners. ('Riders' are just the first few parts of a problem, which are usually simple book-work questions in order to allow the weaker candidates to gain some points on the exam.)
To name a few:

Cambridge senate-house problems and riders, with solutions, 1875 - Greenhill
Cambridge senate-house problems and riders, with solutions, 1878 - Glaisher
Mathematical problems for Cambridge Mathematical Tripos - Wolstenholme
(I remember seeing a solutions manual to this somewhere, but it might be called something weird like "Key to..." instead of "Solutions to...".)
Cambridge senate-house problems and riders, 1848-1851 - Ferrers
Cambridge senate-house problems and riders, 1843-1851 - Jameson
Cambridge senate-house problems and riders, 1854 - Walton
Cambridge senate-house problems and riders, 1857 - Walton

You can easily discover more by searching "cambridge senate house" on archive.org. Other useful terms include: "cambridge problems and riders", "cambridge senate house solutions", "problems cambridge examinations", "cambridge examples", etc.