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Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. Wraps. Slim 8vo.pp.56. INTRODUCTION: "A little less than 300 years ago Isaac Newton, having graduated under Barrow, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics in the University of Cambridge, but without, so we are told, showing any particular signs of originality, was compelled by an out_break of plague to retire to his country home in Lincoln_shire. In the winter of 1664-5 Newton discovered the method of infinite series and a little later the particular case of the binomial series." Very good. Faint wear. …