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Joseph Henry and Herman Melville
The following paper indicates that Melville was taught mathematics by Joseph Henry at the Albany Academy, and won a prize in 1831 for for being “the first best in his class in ciphering books”.

Journal of Humanistic Mathematics Volume 11 | Issue 1 January 2021 page 20 Ahab's Arithmetic: The Mathematics of Moby-Dick Sarah B. Hart Birkbeck College, University of London

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