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Simon Newcomb (1835–1909) was largely an autodidact in mathematics, although he attended Harvard University’s Lawrence Scientific School in 1857–1858, where he studied under Benjamin Peirce, and obtained a BS degree. From 1877, Newcomb was employed as a calculator in Cambridge at the Nautical Almanac Office, which publication he would be associated with for the next forty years.
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Walter, S.A., Nabonnand, P., Krömer, R., Schiavon, M. (2016). Simon Newcomb. In: Walter, S., Nabonnand, P., Krömer, R., Schiavon, M. (eds) La correspondance entre Henri Poincaré, les astronomes, et les géodésiens. Publications des Archives Henri Poincaré Publications of the Henri Poincaré Archives. Birkhäuser, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7643-8293-3_37
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