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Thomas Jefferson still survives ... (Actually, Jefferson had died earlier that same day, Independence Day, July 4, 1826) John Adams, Jr.		Saturday Jun 13, 2026
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	H.W. Turnbull
	In J. R. Newman (ed.) The World of Mathematics, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1956.

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Attaching significance to invariants is an effort to recognize what, because of its form or colour or meaning or otherwise, is important or significant in what is only trivial or ephemeral. A simple instance of failing in this is provided by the poll-man at Cambridge, who learned perfectly how to factorize a^2 - b^2 but was floored because the examiner unkindly asked for the factors of p^2 - q^2.