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Lester R. Ford

1886–1967

American mathematician who described the circles over the fractions in his 1938 paper "Fractions", edited The American Mathematical Monthly from 1942 to 1946 and was president of the Mathematical Association of America in 1947 and 1948.

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Patterns shaped by their work

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