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Robert Woodhouse on Mathematics

1773–1827 England

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The Authors who write near the beginnings of science, are, in general the most instructive: they take the reader more along with them, shew him the real difficulties, and, which is a main point, teach him the subject, the way by which they themselves learned it.

A Treatise on Isoperimetrical Problems, and the Calculus of Variations (1810)

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