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The infinitely small neither have nor can have theory; it is a dangerous instrument in the hands of beginners [...] anticipating, for my part, the judgement of posterity, I would dare predict that this method will be accused one day, and rightly, of having retarded the progress of the mathematical sciences.
Francois-Joseph Servois
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There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had had the free alternative as we now have, would have founded slavery.
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Francois-Joseph Servois
Born:
July 18, 1767
Died:
April 17, 1847
(aged 79)
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François-Joseph Servois was a French priest, military officer and mathematician.
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