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There are no countries in the world less known by the British than these selfsame British Islands, or where more strange things are every day occurring.
Louis Charles Karpinski

Born: August 5, 1878
Died: January 25, 1956 (aged 77)
Bio: Louis Charles Karpinski was an American mathematician born in Rochester, New York to Henry Hermanagle Karpinski from Warsaw, Poland and Mary Louise Engesser from Guebweiler, Alsace. He was educated at Cornell University and in Europe at Strassburg.
Known for:
- The Hindu-Arabic Numerals (1911)
- Unified Mathematics (1918)