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Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
Percy Alexander MacMahon

Born: September 26, 1854
Died: December 25, 1929 (aged 75)
Bio: Percy Alexander MacMahon was a mathematician, especially noted in connection with the partitions of numbers and enumerative combinatorics.
Known for:
- Combinatory analysis (1915)
- New mathematical pastimes (1921)
- Famous Problems, and Other Monographs