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Frederick the Great (1712-1786)

To your care and recommendation am I indebted for having replaced a half-blind mathematician with a mathematician with both eyes, which will especially please the anatomical members of my Academy.
[To D'Alembert about Lagrange. Euler had vacated the post.]
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In D. M. Burton, Elementary Number Theory, Boston: Allyn and Bacon, Inc., 1976.
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