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At the turn of the century, the Swiss historian Jakob Burckhardt, who, unlike most historians, was fond of guessing the future, once confided to his friend Friedrich Nietzsche the prediction that the Twentieth Century would be “the age of oversimplification.”
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Kac, M., Rota, GC., Schwartz, J.T. (1986). Complicating Mathematics. In: Discrete Thoughts. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6667-4_11
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