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Benjamin Franklin's Numbers: An Unsung Mathematical Odyssey

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Few American lives have been as celebrated—or as closely scrutinized—as that of Benjamin Franklin. Yet until now Franklin's biographers have downplayed his interest in mathematics, at best portraying it as the idle musings of a brilliant and ever-restless mind. In Benjamin Franklin's Numbers, Paul Pasles reveals a side of the iconic statesman, scientist, and writer that few Americans know—his mathematical side.


In fact, Franklin indulged in many areas of mathematics, including number theory...