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Mathematical Monographs. Edited by M. Merriman and R. S. Woodward. No. 17. - Lectures on Ten British Mathematicians of the Nineteenth Century. By Alexandeb Macfablane. First Edition. First Thousand. Pp. 148. 5s. 6d. net. (Chapman and Hall.)
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page note 146 * The n and u are fatal to unsuspicious compositors. A victim draws our attention to Ronth, Enler, Darbonx, Pinsenx, ….
page note 148 * Another instance of real or assumed indifference of this kind is that of Dean Cowie, Senior Wrangler (1839) in a great Johnian year, the first four Wranglers, Cowie, Frost, Colsoa, Reyner, all being from St. John’s. Cowie was one of the few Senior Wranglers the foundation of whose later distinction was laid by French hands.. He drove up to the Senate House in a dog cart, and enquired from his seat of the crowd: “Whos at the top?” To the answer: “Cowie !” he replied with the utmost nonchalance: “I thought he would be,” and drove on.
page note 150 * The last is a memory from Pope’s epitaph:–
“Nature and Nature’s laws lay hid in night;
God said, ‘Let Newton be’; and all was light.”
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