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COLBURN, ZERAH (1804-1840)

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COLBURN, ZERAH (1804-1840) , See also:American mathematical See also:prodigy, was See also:born at See also:Cabot, See also:Vermont, on the 1st of See also:September 1804. At a very See also:early See also:age he See also:developed remarkable See also:powers of calculating with extreme rapidity, and in 1810 his See also:father began to exhibit him. As a performing prodigy he visited See also:Great See also:Britain and See also:France. From 1816 to 1819 he studied in See also:Westminster school, See also:London. After the See also:death of his father in 1824 he returned to See also:America, and from 1825 to 1834 he was a Methodist preacher. As he See also:grew older his extraordinary calculating powers diminished. From 1835 until his death, on the 2nd of See also:March 1840, he was See also:professor of See also:languages at the See also:Norwich University in Vermont. He published a Memoir of his See also:life in 1833. His See also:nephew, also named ZERAH'COLBURN (1832-1870), was a well-known See also:mechanical engineer; the editor successively of the Railroad See also:Advocate, in New See also:York, The Engineer, in London, and See also:Engineering, in London; and the author of a See also:work entitled The See also:Locomotive See also:Engine (1851).

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