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From Science Daily • May 14, 2026
Another five publications followed, including a 2025 textbook on continued fractions published by Springer.
From Slate • May 2, 2026
He reckons that whether one does or does not consider the market to be showing bubble characteristics, the recent surge in momentum plays “is textbook parabolic price action.”
From MarketWatch • Apr. 24, 2026
For the foreseeable future, the right answer will be the current style of hybrid with a traditional engine, says James Heywood, who literally wrote the textbook on modern internal combustion engines.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
Hippocrates of Chios is included not because he wrote the first geometry textbook but because he engaged in trade.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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