"[To use spherical harmonies or Bessel functions is] to be able to start in mathematics in Cambridge just about the place where some of the best mathematical men now end their studies forever."
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John Perry as quoted by , "The Teaching of Geometry" (Dec., 1902) Educational Review Vol. 24, p. 459.
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