Timeline for Examples of good research mathematicians that did poorly in exams
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| Oct 26, 2015 at 22:30 | comment | added | Chappers | Whiteside reports Conduitt's account of this (The Mathematical Papers of Isaac Newton, v.1, p18), and does not dispute the story (as he frequently does with other passages of the account). Newton's detailed study of Euclid came later. | |
| Oct 26, 2015 at 19:43 | comment | added | Alexandre Eremenko | I am afraid that this story is made up. What is the reference? It is known from many sources that Newton studied Euclid very carefully. | |
| Oct 26, 2015 at 14:34 | review | First posts | |||
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| Oct 26, 2015 at 14:31 | history | answered | Chappers | CC BY-SA 3.0 |