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Quotes from A History of the Study of Mathematics at Cambridge — W. W. Rouse Ball

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)

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