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It seems to me that the tendency of our mathematical instruction and... examinations has been of late years to promote the acquisition of a knowledge of formal relations of symbols and the power of readily producing them,

James Challis

James Challis

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Born: December 12, 1803

Died: December 3, 1882 (aged 78)

Bio: James Challis FRS was an English clergyman, physicist and astronomer. Plumian Professor and director of the Cambridge Observatory, he investigated a wide range of physical phenomena though made few lasting contributions outside astronomy.

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