He was educated at home until he was eight years old and by the time he entered school in 1897 he had read his fathers mathematics books learning how to extract cube roots How many mathematicians today know how to extract cube roots He was fascinated by mathematical models and calculating learning arithmetical methods from his mother

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He was educated at home until he was eight years old and by the time he entered school in 1897 he had read his father's mathematics books, learning how to extract cube roots. (How many mathematicians today know how to extract cube roots?) He was fascinated by mathematical models and calculating, learning arithmetical methods from his mother.