Abstract
In 1746, when he was a candidate for the Chair of Mathematics in the University of Edinburgh rendered vacant by the death of Maclaurin, Matthew Stewart published his first work, Some General Theorems of considerable use in the higher parts of Mathematics. In the preface to it he states that “the theorems contained in the following sheets . … are entirely new, save one or two at most,” but he does not specify the two. They are
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