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In any field of human endeavor, the “great” participants are distinguished from everyone else by the arcana and apocrypha that surround them. Stories about Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart abound, yet there are few stories about his musical contemporaries. Mozart had the je ne sais quoi that made people want to tell stories about him.
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Krantz, S.G. (2001). Mathematical Anecdotes. In: Mathematical Conversations. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0195-0_5
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