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What do Augustus De Morgan, Chelsea Clinton, Samuel Adams, and Caligula have in common?

The biography of Augustus De Morgan in The MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive ends with the following interesting tidbit. De Morgan was always interested in odd numerical facts and writing in 1864 he noted that he had the distinction of being years old in the year (He was 43 in 1849). Anyone born in 1980…

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Dickinson College
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Tales of Impossibility: The 2000-Year Quest to Solve the Mathematical Problems of Antiquity (Princeton University Press, 2019)

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Euler's Gem: The Polyhedron Formula and the Birth of Topology (Princeton University Press, 2008)

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