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John Playfair
Birth: 3-10-1748
Death: 7-20-1819
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John Playfair was a Church of Scotland minister, a scientist, and a mathematician, and a professor of natural philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. William Seward mentioned his monument in a letter to his daughter Fanny written July 10, 1859.
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John Playfair was a Church of Scotland minister, a scientist, and a mathematician, and a professor of natural philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. William Seward mentioned his monument in a letter to his daughter Fanny written July 10, 1859.
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MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive
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http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Playfair.html
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MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive
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