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OXFORD.—The Savilian Professor of Geometry, J. J. Sylvester, will deliver, early next term, a public lecture on the sufficiency of Barbier's principle to furnish a universal and geometrical solution of a celebrated problem of chances originated by Buffon, but whose solution of it, and also that of Laplace, was limited to the two simplest cases, and involved the use of the integral calculus. The lecture will be divested as far as possible of technical terms, so as to be made intelligible to a general audience. Time and place will be stated in a subsequent notice.
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University and Educational Intelligence. Nature 40, 189 (1889). https://doi.org/10.1038/040189a0
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