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commented on his death that "He was a wise and generous man who inspired love and an increase of intellectual energy in everyone who came within his ambit." Hawking later commented that "Thanks to Mr Tahta, I became a professor of mathematics at
Cambridge, a position once held by Isaac Newton".
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Geometry" argued that
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