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What algebraic system taught in present-day schools is one of the legacies of the philosopher RenE Descartes to which he lent his name?

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In primary school, after he had misbehaved, his teacher asked him to add all the numbers from 1 to He answered in a few seconds after realizing that the pairwise addition of terms from opposite ends of the list yielded identical intermediate sums: 1 + 100 = 101, 2 + 99 = 101, 3 + 98 = 101, and so on, for a total sum of 50 × 101 = 5050. About which German genius, regarded as the greatest mathematician since antiquity is this possibly apocryphal story often told?

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About which genius did Prof. Hardy of Cambridge say “The greatest mathematicians made their most significant discoveries when they were very young. Galois who died at 20, Abel at 26, and Riemann at 39, had actually made their mark in history. So the real tragedy of X was not his early death at the age of 32, but that in his most formative years, he did not receive proper training, and so a significant part of his work was rediscovery…”?

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What’s a long ton?

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