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After Minkowski’s arrival in Göttingen in the fall of 1902, Hilbert was no longer lonely: “A telephone call, or a few steps down the street, a pebble tossed up against the little corner window of his study, and there he was, always ready for any mathematical or non-mathematical undertaking.”
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Reid, C. (1996). Second Youth. In: Hilbert. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0739-9_12
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