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"No one ever squared the circle with so much genius, or, excepting his principal object, with so much success."

January 1, 1970

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Attributed to Jean-Étienne Montucla in Augustus De Morgan, A Budget of Paradoxes, (London, 1872): About Gregory St. Vincent, described by De Morgan as "the greatest of circle-squarers, and his investigations led him into many truths: he found the property of the arc of the hyperbola which led to Napier's logarithms being called hyperbolic."

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Attributed to Jean-Étienne Montucla in Augustus De Morgan, A Budget of Paradoxes, (London, 1872): About Gregory St. Vincent, described by De Morgan as "the greatest of circle-squarers, and his investigations led him into many truths: he found the property of the arc of the hyperbola which led to Napier's logarithms being called hyperbolic."