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work_fsqmoqxrv5g7tjxig2yts3oina	Robin Wilson	The New World	2017	1	.pdf	application/pdf	345	29	61	he founders of American independence included the study of mathematics and science in the late carried out experiments in electricity, such as his celebrated he was fascinated by magic squares, and constructed a column, or 4 9 4 sub-square, have the same sum. Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826), the third president of the United States, extolled the virtues of science and wrote of the Interested in classical architecture, he designed his home, Monticello, and the rotunda of the University of Virginia. France, and strongly advocated decimalising the American coinage, but it was not until 1866 that the United States Congress passed a law legalising the use of metric measurements. Benjamin Banneker (1731–1826) was a self-taught mathematician and astronomer. In later life he constructed accurate astronomical Benjamin Franklin Thomas Jefferson Franklin's lightning experiment Virginia rotunda Banneker and Washington Benjamin Banneker � Column editor's address: Robin Wilson, Mathematical Institute, 96 THE MATHEMATICAL INTELLIGENCER � 2017 Springer Science+Business Media New York	./cache/work_fsqmoqxrv5g7tjxig2yts3oina.pdf	./txt/work_fsqmoqxrv5g7tjxig2yts3oina.txt