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Firefly: Where is your husband? Mrs. Teasdale: Why, he's dead. Firefly: I'll bet he's just using that as an excuse. Mrs. Teasdale: I was with him to the very end. Firefly: Hmmph. No wonder he passed away. Mrs. Teasdale: I held him in my arms and kissed him. Firefly: Oh I see. Then, it was murder. Julius Henry "Groucho" Marx		Tuesday Dec 23, 2025
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About Benjamin Peirce

	Benjamin Peirce
	(1809-1880) Memoir read before the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, 1870 - American mathematics professor at Harvard, author, researcher.

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After proving Euler's formula e^i = -1 in a lecture: Gentlemen, that is surely true, it is absolutely paradoxical; we cannot understand it, and we don't know what it means. But we have proved it, and therefore we know it is the truth. Mathematics is the science which draws necessary conclusions.

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