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Gravitation simply represents a continual effort of the universe to straighten itself out.

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The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.
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E. T. Whittaker

E. T. Whittaker

Born: October 24, 1873
Died: March 24, 1956 (aged 82)
Bio: Edmund Taylor Whittaker FRS FRSE was an English mathematician who contributed widely to applied mathematics, mathematical physics and the theory of special functions.
Known for:
  1. A Course of Modern Analysis (1902)
  2. The theory of optical instruments (1907)

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