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Vernon Lee was the pseudonym of the French-born British writer Violet Paget (14 October 1856 – 13 February 1935). She is remembered today primarily for her supernatural fiction and her work on aesthetics.
"A Wicked Voice" by Vernon Lee recounts the tale of a 19th-century composer named Magnus. He is in Venice to compose music for his opera, Ogier the Dane.In Venice, however, his inspiration weakens "in the stagnant lagoon of the past," as the culture and history of Venice confuse his musical ideals: "It was as if there arose out of its shallow waters a miasma of long-dead melodies, which ...
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The club was founded on January 29, 1887, with the following intention: The objects shall be to promote an interest in, and a love for whatever will tend to make literature attractive as given in the form of printed and illustrated volumes, to mutually assist in making researches and collections of first and rare editions, and to promote elegance in the production of Odd Volumes.
Numbers: The Universal Language (French: L'empire des nombres, lit. 'The Empire of Numbers') is a 1996 illustrated monograph on numbers and their history.Written by the French historian of science Denis Guedj, and published in pocket format by Éditions Gallimard as the 300th volume in their "Découvertes" collection [1] (known as "Abrams Discoveries" in the United States, and "New Horizons ...
A factorial x! is the product of all numbers from 1 to x. The first: 1, 2, 6, 24, 120, 720, 5040, 40320, 362880, 3628800, 39916800, 479001600 (sequence A000142 in the OEIS). 0! = 1 is sometimes included. A k-smooth number (for a natural number k) has its prime factors ≤ k (so it is also j-smooth for any j > k).