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Benedict Sestini
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Benedict Sestini (20 March 1816 – 17 January 1890) was an Italian Jesuit.
Quotes
To render the Science of Algebra intelligible to pupils whose minds are yet unaccustomed to such studies, is not an easy task. For should the instructor subject every principle, as it is announced, to a rigorous demonstration, he will very probably not be comprehended; while, on the other hand, inconclusive reasoning is worse than none at all.
Elementary Algebra (1854)
Quotes about Benedict Sestini
It was pleasantly said of him that he had two passions---one for pure mathematics, and the other for the pure Catholic religion.
Edward Ignatius Devitt, Benedict Sestini (1913) Catholic Encyclopedia
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