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I’m just revisiting an earlier post about the beauty of a found mathematical notebook–its quiet assuredness, its composition, its care, its trying….just lovely, speaking of the efforts of a young person back in 1840.
For more, see https://historyofideasblog.com/thesciencebookstore/2014/03/the-beauty-of-mathematical-manuscripts-1840.html
