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He wasn’t completely free of the older view as he pondered the tricks that schoolmasters used to construct the canonical curves without bothering with any algebra: a string attached to a peg that could
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Some of the works Newton had already read used infinite series to attack a variety of questions—for one, chasing down ever more precise values for that bane of middle school geometers, π(the number used
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The study of curves was a central fascination of seventeenth-century mathematics, and Newton had plunged into the field when he read a translation of René Descartes’s Geometrya year before the plague hit.
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