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This material was first presented on 7 January 1981 at the AMS Annual Meeting in a special session “History of Contemporary Mathematics.” In [4] there is a more leisurely account of part of the material discussed here, together with an extensive list of references. We are grateful to the institutions and individuals who provided the photographs.
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Todd, J. A Legacy from E. I. Zolotarev (1847–1878). The Mathematical Intelligencer 10, 50–53 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03028357
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