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I would rather be a dreamer without mathematics, than a mathematician without dreams.
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He... gave thirteen forms of the cubic which have positive roots, these having already been given by Omar Kayyam.
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The law which asserts that the equation X = 0, complete or incomplete, can have no more real positive roots than it has changes of sign, and no more real negative roots than it has permanences of sign, was apparently known to Cardan; but a satisfactory statement is possibly due to Harriot (died 1621) and certainly to Descartes.
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Born:
January 21, 1860
Died:
July 29, 1944
(aged 84)
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David Eugene Smith was an American mathematician, educator, and editor.
Known for:
A source book in mathematics
A history of Japanese mathematics (1914)
Rara arithmetica
Present teaching of mathematics in Germany
Problems about war for classes in arithmetic
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