| Subject: | OT: Question about Prime Obsession |
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| From: | Schizoid Man |
| Date: | Tue, 31 Oct 2006 00:30:42 -0800 |
| Newsgroups: | sci.math |
In the book Prime Obsession, the author John Derbyshire refers to Adrien
Legendre as "almost a first-rate mathematician" but not quite in the
league of his fellow countrymen like Fourier, Lagrange or Cauchy.
Is this a fair portrait? |
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