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Reub. Field, Mathematical Prodigy. 241
terviewed. His assertions that he did not possess his calculating
power until he was seven years old cannot be trusted unreservedly,
for fear of an illusion of memory. "- If the statement was
correct, then the case of Reub. Field is probably unique in history,
and more nearly than the stock cases approaches the inexplicable.*
• Since the above was written it has been learned that Fields's phenomenal
mathematical faculty' waned, if it did not entirely disappear, toward the end
of his life. He died at the age of 64 in the Jackson County (Mo.) Home for
\he Poor.
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