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An accomplished mathematician, i.e. a most wretched orator.

— Isaac Barrow Mathematical Lectures (1734)

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Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth.

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Now as to what pertains to these Surd numbers (which, as it were by way of reproach and calumny, having no merit of their own are also styled Irrational, Irregular, and Inexplicable) they are by many denied to be numbers properly speaking, and are wont to be banished from arithmetic to another Science, (which yet is no science) viz. algebra.

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