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The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.
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