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We live at a time when the old nineteenth century hopes of achieving a simple description of nature have been disappointed. The complexity and strangeness of astronomical discoveries, of most peculiar stars and collections of stars, the great variety of unexpected extreme conditions, the finding of unexplained luminosities of galaxies, indeed the whole shape and behavior of the universe in the large, present problems of great perplexity.
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Ulam, S.M. (1986). Ideas of Space and Space-Time. In: Reynolds, M.C., Rota, GC. (eds) Science, Computers, and People. Birkhäuser Boston. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-9819-0_3
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