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Portrait of Marie Antoinette by Jean-Francois Janinet, 1777. Color etching and engraving with gold leaf printed on two sheets, 30x13.5 in.

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Weierstrass M-test sequence uniform convergence limit divergence infinite series power series geometric series Fourier series

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James Gregory.

James Gregory

Scottish mathematician and astronomer

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Numbers and Mathematics