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“It is safe to make a choice of your thoughts, scarcely ever safe to express them all.”

Quote by Isaac Barrow

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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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