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Abraham Lincoln on reading difficult books

How To Read Difficult Books Just Like Abraham Lincoln

In the early 1850s, while serving as a lawyer in Illinois, Abraham Lincoln decided to read a difficult book, Euclid’s Elements, a mathematical treatise written by Euclid an ancient Greek mathematician around 300 BC. It is a collection of definitions, postulates, propositions, and mathematical proofs of the propositions. Euclid’s Elements, a compilation of thirteen books

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