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  2. Thomas Fuller (mental calculator) - Wikipedia

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    In ten minutes, he answered, 34,588,806. The difference of time between his answering this, and the two former questions, was occasioned by a trifling mistake he made from a misapprehension of the question. Despite Fuller's perfect answers, it appeared to Hartshorne and Coates that his mental abilities must have once been more extraordinary.

  3. Category:18th-century mathematicians - Wikipedia

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    Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikimedia Commons; ... Pages in category "18th-century mathematicians"

  4. Joseph Diez Gergonne - Wikipedia

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    Gergonne was among the first mathematicians to employ the word polar.In a series of papers beginning in 1810, he contributed to elaborating the principle of duality in projective geometry, by noticing that every theorem in the plane connecting points and lines corresponds to another theorem in which points and lines are interchanged, provided that the theorem embodied no metrical notions.

  5. List of Indian mathematicians - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; ... 18th Century. Jagannatha Samrat (1652–1744) Jai Singh II (1681 – 1743) Kerala School of Mathematics and Astronomy. Sankara ...

  6. 17-animal inheritance puzzle - Wikipedia

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    17 indivisible camels. The 17-animal inheritance puzzle is a mathematical puzzle involving unequal but fair allocation of indivisible goods, usually stated in terms of inheritance of a number of large animals (17 camels, 17 horses, 17 elephants, etc.) which must be divided in some stated proportion among a number of beneficiaries.

  7. Buffon's needle problem - Wikipedia

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    In probability theory, Buffon's needle problem is a question first posed in the 18th century by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon: [1] Suppose we have a floor made of parallel strips of wood, each the same width, and we drop a needle onto the floor. What is the probability that the needle will lie across a line between two strips?

  8. Unifying theories in mathematics - Wikipedia

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    The process of unification might be seen as helping to define what constitutes mathematics as a discipline. For example, mechanics and mathematical analysis were commonly combined into one subject during the 18th century, united by the differential equation concept; while algebra and geometry were considered largely distinct.

  9. William Leybourn - Wikipedia

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    It remained one of the standard references in the field into the 18th century. It instructed property surveyors on the construction of property maps, and how to make the appropriate coloured inks for the maps. [ 11 ]