How to Solve a Quadratic Equation

A lot of math in, the you know, so called dark ages was done by priests and monasteries. Rit for example, a very famous result from, i believe it's the 11 hundreds or the 13 hundred a iis the fact that the sum of the reciprocals of the natural numbers o one plus one over two plus one over three plus one over four is not finite. And so this figured out by some monk, actually, originally. Another one that's very famous, a little bit later, was a solution to the cubic. Ah, en, there's a blood of beautiful arguments.

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