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W. W. Rouse Ball on Mathematics

1850–1925 England

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Wallis rejected as absurd and inconceivable the now usual idea of a negative number as being less than nothing, but accepted the view that it is something greater than infinity.

A History of the Study of Mathematics at Cambridge (1889)

The history of mathematics cannot with certainty be traced back to any school or period before that of the…Greeks…. Though all early races …knew something of numeration yet the rules…were neither deduced from nor did they form part of any science.

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