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Woodrow Wilson and Herbert Hoover
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An abstract should not contain concrete mathematics,
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The authors wish to thank the Greek polymath Anonymous,
 whose prolific works are an endless source of inspiration.
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Adam Parker,
 Who solved the Bernoulli equation and how did they do it?
 
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44
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 (2013) 89–97.
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Brian Hopkins,
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 Mathematical Association of America,
 Washington DC,
 2009.
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Woodrow Wilson
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received his Ph.D.
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 He held visiting positions at Cornell and Wesleyan before joining the faculty at Princeton,
 where he was eventually appointed president of the university.
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Office of the President,
 Princeton University,
 Princeton NJ 08544
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twoodwilson@princeton.edu
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Herbert Hoover
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entered Stanford University in 1891,
 after failing all of the entrance exams except mathematics.
 He received his B.S.
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 spent time as a mining engineer,
 then was appointed by his co-author to the U.S.
 Food Administration and the Supreme Economic Council,
 where he orchestrated the greatest famine relief efforts of all time.
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Hoover Institution,
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herbhoover@stanford.edu
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