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Mathematicians born on this day:
1566 : Giuseppe Biancani |
Mathematicians who died on this day:
1688 : Honoré Fabri |
| George Chrystal | Honoré Fabri | William Hamilton |
George Chrystal (1851 - 1911)
The teaching of Algebra in the early stages ought to consist of a gradual generalisation of Arithmetic; in other words, Algebra ought, in the first instance to be taught as Arithmetica Universalis in the strictest sense.
Preface to Algebra (1886)
Another quotation by one of today's mathematicians
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