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Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism, which produces much the same effect as if you worked a love story or an elopement into the fifth proposition of Euclid.

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February 10th

1576	Xylander, translator of Euclid and Diophantus, died in Heidelburg, Germany. The Greek name Xylander was the pseudonym of Wilhelm Holzmann. More information about: Euclid of Alexandria Diophantus of Alexandria Wilhelm Holzmann or Xylander (in German)
1677	John Collins wrote, "The truth of it is, mathematical learning will not go off without a dowry; the booksellers have lost so much by the works of Drs. Wallis and ... Barrow ... that it is no easy task to persuade booksellers to undertake any thing but toys that are mathematical" (The Correspondence of Isaac Newton). More information about: John Wallis Isaac Barrow John Collins Isaac Newton
1747	Aida Yasuaki born. In 1788 this Japanese mathematician published a collection of geometry problems in a new and simplified symbolic notation. More information about: Aida Yasuaki
1891	Sofia Kovalevskaya died in Stockholm, Sweden. Born in Moscow, Russia, she studied with Weierstrass in Berlin and is best known for her contributions to the field of differential equations. More information about: Sofia Kovalevskaya

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