“A precisian professor had the habit of saying: "... quartic polynomial ax^4+bx^3+cx^2+dx+e , where e need not be the base of the natural logarithms."”
Quote by John Edensor Littlewood
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John Edensor Littlewood
John Edensor Littlewood was an outstanding British mathematician known for his contributions to number theory, analysis, and probability theory. His research spanned a wide range of areas including group theory in number theory, number-theoretic functions, and limit theorems in probability theory. more
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