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It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are. Clive James		Saturday Mar 14, 2026
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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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