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The man who bound a right triangle's three sides into a single rule

The first to weave geometry into an unbroken chain of proof

He added up 'infinitely thin slices' two thousand years before calculus

The man who gave the world the word 'algebra'

The man who brought '0 and the Arabic numerals' to Europe

The man who married algebra and geometry on the coordinate plane

The 'prince of amateurs' who left the hardest problem in a margin

The man who invented calculus to compute change in an instant

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