“Yet what are all such gaieties to me
Whose thoughts are full of indices and surds?
x2+7x+53
=11/3.”

Four Riddles, no. I
Rhyme? and Reason? (1883)

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English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer 1832–1898

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