“As a stick, when once it is dry and stiff you may break it, but you can never bend it into a straighter posture; so doth the man become incorrigible who is settled and stiffened into vice.”
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Isaac Barrow
Isaac Barrow was an English mathematician who made significant contributions to the fields of geometry and calculus. He is known for his work on the tangent line and for being the first to use the term 'infinitesimal'. Barrow was a professor at Cambridge University and is considered one of the founders of the Cambridge Mathematical School. more
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