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Lectures on Ten British Mathematicians of the Nineteenth Century. By Alexander Macfarlane. First Edition. First Thousand. Pp. 148. 5s. 6d. net. (Chapman and Hall.)*
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Lectures on Ten British Mathematicians of the Nineteenth Century. By Alexander Macfarlane. First Edition. First Thousand. Pp. 148. 5s. 6d. net. (Chapman and Hall.)*
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page 146 note * Printed in the Mathematical Gazette, October, 1917.
page 147 note * Another instance of real or assumed indifference of this kind is that of Dean Cowie, Senior Wrangler (1839) in a great Johnian year, the first four Wranglers, Cowie, Frost, Colson, Reyner, all being from St. John’s. Cowie was one of the few Senior Wranglers the foundation of whose later distinction was laid by French hands. He drove up to the Senate Honse in a dog-cart, and enquired from his seat of the crowd : “ Who’s at the top? ” To the answer : “ Cowie! ” he replied with the utmost nonchalance : “ I thought he would be,” and drove on.
page 149 note * The last is a memory from Pope’s epitaph :
“Nature and Naturc’s laws lay hid in night ;
God said, ‘ Let Newton be ’ ; and all was light.”
page 150 note * Illegible.
page 152 note * Printed in the Mathematical Gazette, July, 1922.