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The specialist who wishes to accomplish work of the highest excellence must be learned in the resources of science and have constantly in mind its grandeur and meaning.

Percy Alexander MacMahon

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The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.
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Percy Alexander MacMahon

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:
  1. Combinatory analysis (1915)
  2. New mathematical pastimes (1921)
  3. Famous Problems, and Other Monographs

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