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You may find this work (if I judge rightly) quite new. For I see no…
Quote byJohn Wallis · 1616–1703
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Arithmetica Infinitorum (1656).
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You may find this work (if I judge rightly) quite new. For I see no reason why I should not proclaim it; nor do I believe that others will take it wrongly. ...it teaches all by a new method, introduced by me for the first time into geometry, and with such clarity that in these more abstruse problems no-one (as far as I know) has used...
— John Wallis
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