The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-12-11
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I4otably the most taIlIIlz able OF the.
three was the menaory Of LeOnard
Euler. Euler was 4 narfye et Basel
but most Of his LIE was spent u 81
PetersbuElS. he was born q 1908 an. =
died h 156s8 BE was. q
jZreat poIEer antl,a most i,rUlifie WEtters
Af6fe than half Of the fOresix qIEa4tos
volumes q mathematics Gublstle by
the st Petersburg acade n1g bet cen
.I527 and 1853 were from his pen. At
his aeatIl he left more thar 90 manu-.
script .treGtts
In the later years of his LIE he lEas
fotaIIy BIND Then, and probably ear
Her too he carried In his memoEy q
tlble q the frst SIX powers Of the
series u ntlt1FaI numbers NJ 70 q
hIIndred-E, II s related that on one oe=
east0n two of his students attempted to
eaIcuIRte 4 Conveying series. As they
PROGRESSED tlley found Enlargement In
theit reulta. These dfnered BY 4 unit
It the GftIetn figure The question was
tefssFetI 70 IEleI,2 who decided to make
ne ID I'd atIoH He did this menu Us
md: .IesuE was found to be cors.
rect.
II was not only IN mathematics that
Euler give proof of a prodigious mem-
Dry. He was wen read in general liter
allure and was an excellent classical
scholar. Virgil was one Of his fav0rite
writer's. It Is said that he knew this
author so wen that he could repeat the
'.Aenefd' from beginning to end with
out Restitution end indicate the FIRST
and last line OF every page of the edi-
tfon which he used
The seventeenth century furnishes
the other two instances. to which I call
especial attention. The first Is that of
the rtnIihnl scholar Antonio da Marco
8EagiAbecm was the lit
erary prodigy OF his time Royalty and
other distinguished personages paid
rIbute TO. his WONDERFUL learning. BIS
contemporaries have said that his
memory was. so prodfgiOus that he was
able TO. retain verbatim most of the
contents OF his tmultitudinous booIss-T
A comparatively recent writer has
deelAred that AIagIIabechi could name
al the, authors thai had written upon
any subject, giving the name Of the
book. the words and often page. This
Is doubtless exaggeratton; but. on the
other hand. It should be remembered
that the uumbe-of books on any sub
Iect vEsre- much faweI- then than at t,se
present day. Besides this. there arr
two,stnrfes that lave come down from
time. to ours TINT give
color to its truth. ON one occasion n
gentleman of Florence desired 60 test
memory and ascertain
for himself whether the wUnlerfuE
stories told were truth or fiction He
gave. him n manuscript TO read; then.
soma. days after its return, pretending
TO have lost 1t. lie ell AIagIidbechf to
recall 1t. which.it liz said, he did with |
bile eSnctnesE- vt another time
the grsIiF(I duke Of Florence asked IT Ire
could procure Il ceT.rnin book for him
Immediately came THE response: no. |
sireI:it Is impossible. There Is but one |
IN the world. That Is In the grand |
sesgnlor's library at c-onstautnopIe and |
IS the seventh bools ON the seventh |
To-
Tile other instancs,.fn the seventeenth
century IS that Of the Rev. Dr- John |
wallis It Is not however. as a theo-
IOgIan that Wallis name rs enrolled n |
1le tempfe of fame; but as mathema-
dclnn. In mathematical history he |
ranks as the greatest of Newtun's Eng |
lsh precursors. FIe was started on his |
career by reading ouGh- |
reds i>Clavic SflthenIEtfca, but the |
special. bent OF his genius came from
rorrleeIli's writings ON '-'The Method OF |
To this he applied the
Cartestnn analysis and produced his.
great work, the .4rftlImeficsi InfinltOri-
nm'c-''the raost stimulating mathe-
natiaal worIs so far published In Eng |
anG" Hero lie makes the successful
attempt to solve number OF the more
simple problems OF the calculus by the,
iuinmntioIs or series TO luHulIy. Inc
work wns.Oue Of great influence. Kew
ION read It while an Undergraduate at |
tne university and from Il Immediately |
derived his bruomial Formula The
power o. concentration and of memory |
we're beth very strong with WSllls-So
strong. 1t Is said, That on one. oceasiOn
while, in bel in the dark he extracted
the square root of a numbeF Of hEty-
three ISl;lceR to tweilt y-SeYeIt, terInR and L
repeated the result twenty days after
ward
These examples Of rereistive' rnsnaoEy