Meditationes Algebraicae: An English Translation of the Work of Edward Waring - Edward Waring - Google Books

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"Some time ago, I attended a lecture by a prominent computer scientist, a man of Chinese origin, who began with the words, 'Since there are very few Chinese people in the audience, I will give my talk in the universal language of Science: Broken English...…