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by trurl123 5671 days ago
It's usual exercises for school in Russia. I don't find any difficult problems. I mean all except English.
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varjag 5671 days ago
True, but it wasn't typical Russian school level in 1868.
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migiale 5671 days ago
check this out http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/BogdanovB... this is a painting from 1895 pupils were supposed to do calculations like the one on the blackboard in their heads, without any writing
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varjag 5671 days ago
It's not algebra, you wouldn't have gotten to MIT with that even back then.
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