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Robert Potts (1805–1885) was a British mathematician. His edition of Euclid's Elements was the standard geometry textbook for much of the 19th century.

Born: 1805

Died: 1885

Categories: Mathematicians, Educators, English people, 1880s deaths

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I have had considerable experience in dealing with minds of low logical power, and have found that studies may be made so easy and mechanical as to render thought almost superfluous.
Robert Potts
• Criticising Charles Dodgson's Notes on the First Two Books of Euclid, quoted in Robin Wilson, Lewis Carroll in Numberland (2008) p. 87
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