7-4-1662

Entry from Samuel Pepys' diary.: "By and by comes Mr. Cooper ... of whom I entend to learn Mathematiques; and so we begin with him today .... After an hour's being with him at Arithmetique, my first attempt being to learn the Multiplication table, then we parted till tomorrow." At the time Pepys held a position akin to a modern Secretary of the Navy.

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