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From Conan Doyle's letter, at the age of 17:

"...It is indeed, as you say, a very great consolation to know that I will never more need mathematics. Classics I like, and I shall always try to keep up my knowledge of them, but mathematics of every sort I detest and abhor."

And the editor of the book wryly remarks, "So when the time came to create an arch villain for Sherlock Holmes, he made Professor James Moriarty a mathematician."
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Reminded me of this rather:

"Who on earth was Euclid?!"
(Jeremy Brett)

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