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• ... mathematician and astronomer '''[[David Gregory (nonfiction)|David Gregory]]''' David Gregory (nonfiction) became an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1705; and that at the Union of 1707, Gregory was given the responsibility of re-organizing the Scottish Mint?
• ... mathematician and astronomer '''[[David Gregory (nonfiction)|David Gregory]]''' David Gregory (nonfiction) became an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1705; and that at the Union of 1707, Gregory was given the responsibility of re-organizing the Scottish Mint?


• ... mathematician, scholar, and poet '''[[aude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac (nonfiction)|Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac]]''' (9 October 1581 – 26 February 1638) wrote a translation, from Greek to Latin, of the ''Arithmetica'' of Diophantus; and that it was this very translation in which [[Pierre de Fermat (nonfiction)|Pierre de Fermat|Pierre de Fermat]] wrote his famous margin note claiming that he had a proof of Fermat's last theorem; and that the same text renders Diophantus' term παρισὀτης as ''adaequalitat'', which became Fermat's technique of ''adequality'', a pioneering method of [[Calculus (nonfiction)|infinitesimal calculus]]?
• ... mathematician, scholar, and poet '''[[Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac (nonfiction)|Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac]]''' (9 October 1581 – 26 February 1638) wrote a translation, from Greek to Latin, of the ''Arithmetica'' of Diophantus; and that it was this very translation in which [[Pierre de Fermat (nonfiction)|Pierre de Fermat|Pierre de Fermat]] wrote his famous margin note claiming that he had a proof of Fermat's last theorem; and that the same text renders Diophantus' term παρισὀτης as ''adaequalitat'', which became Fermat's technique of ''adequality'', a pioneering method of [[Calculus (nonfiction)|infinitesimal calculus]]?

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CIA officer Left: E. Howard Hunt. Right: "Three tramps" arrested after the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

• ... American intelligence officer and writer E. Howard Hunt (9 October 1918 – 23 January 2007) was a CIA officer from 1949 to 1970; and that Hunt, along with G. Gordon Liddy and others, plotted burglaries and other illegal undercover operations for the Nixon administration?

• ... mathematician and astronomer David Gregory David Gregory (nonfiction) became an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1705; and that at the Union of 1707, Gregory was given the responsibility of re-organizing the Scottish Mint?

• ... mathematician, scholar, and poet Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac (9 October 1581 – 26 February 1638) wrote a translation, from Greek to Latin, of the Arithmetica of Diophantus; and that it was this very translation in which Pierre de Fermat|Pierre de Fermat wrote his famous margin note claiming that he had a proof of Fermat's last theorem; and that the same text renders Diophantus' term παρισὀτης as adaequalitat, which became Fermat's technique of adequality, a pioneering method of infinitesimal calculus?

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