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Harold Davenport - Higher arithmetic (1952)

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A peculiarity of the higher arithmetic is the great difficulty which has often been experienced in proving simple general theorems which had been suggested quite naturally by numerical evidence.

Harold Davenport

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Born: October 30, 1907
Died: June 9, 1969 (aged 61)
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