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... theory of probability , as well as to the theory of complex numbers . Newton himself remarked of his contemporary , Roger Cotes ( 1682–1716 ) , that , " If Cotes had lived we had known something . " He was one of the first to compile a ...
... theory of probability , as well as to the theory of complex numbers . Newton himself remarked of his contemporary , Roger Cotes ( 1682–1716 ) , that , " If Cotes had lived we had known something . " He was one of the first to compile a ...
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... Theory from the Observations of the French Astronomers . ” 6 In connection with his study of Newton , Blake became in- terested in the theory of curvature , but Simpson believed certain of his ideas to be erroneous and wrote to him ...
... Theory from the Observations of the French Astronomers . ” 6 In connection with his study of Newton , Blake became in- terested in the theory of curvature , but Simpson believed certain of his ideas to be erroneous and wrote to him ...
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... Theory here assigned to him may I conceive be allowed to continue to his instructions to such pupils in ye practical application thereof , in whatever manner shall appear to him most conducive to ye forming of a good en- gineer or an ...
... Theory here assigned to him may I conceive be allowed to continue to his instructions to such pupils in ye practical application thereof , in whatever manner shall appear to him most conducive to ye forming of a good en- gineer or an ...
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