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William Jones (1675-1749) was largely a self-made mathematician. He had considerable genius and wrote on navigation and general mathematics. He edited some of Newton’s tracts.
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Jones, W. (1997). The First Use of π for the Circle Ratio. In: Pi: A Source Book. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2736-4_15
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