1918.] The Fifth Indian Science Congress. lxxvii 
plane figure bounded by a line called the circumference and 
Rs. 50 a month in the Port Engineer’s Office at Madras. He 
had never been to a university. but he had discovered hundreds 
of theorems in several very advanced branches of pure mathe- 
matics. To me the most surprising feature of his work was the 
te not assert that any students who may be among my 
will convince their teachers of their transcendent 
contemptuous refusal to learn book-work. But I 
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~* Xnowledge. What is wanted in life is ability to apply 
ag to the actual cases that arise; and the man who 
nds j 
Nat ,€ problem, and it was general understanding of 
tation 8 methods that brought him success. For mere infor- 
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"aste energy in burdening his memory with it. 
