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• Newton took no exercise, indulged in no amusements, and worked incessantly, often spending eighteen or nineteen hours out of the twenty-four in…
• Throughout his life Newton must have devoted at least as much attention to chemistry and theology as to mathematics. ...
• [Gauss calculated the elements of the planet Ceres] and his analysis proved him to be the first of theoretical astronomers no less…
• Foreshadowings of the principles and even of the language of [the infinitesimal] calculus can be found in the writings of Napier, Kepler,…
• The manner of Demoivre's death has a certain interest for psychologists. Shortly before it, he declared that it was necessary for him…
• For other great mathematicians or philosophers, he [Gauss] used the epithets magnus, or clarus, or clarissimus; for Newton alone he kept the…
• 'My dear friend, that must be a delusion, what can a circle have to do with the number of people alive at…
• De Morgan was explaining to an actuary what was the chance that a certain proportion of some group of people would at…
• Biot, who assisted Laplace in revising it [The Mécanique Céleste] for the press, says that Laplace himself was frequently unable to recover…
• Babbage ... gave the name to the [Cambridge] Analytical Society, which he stated was formed to advocate 'the principles of pure d-ism…

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