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Notes

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    This rule is often cited in Latin as “entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem” (English translation in the text), and also referred to under the name “Occam’s razor”.

  2. 2.

    For a sample of beautiful objects in mathematics, see (Huntley, 1970; King, 1992; Lang, 1985; Rothstein, 1995; Chageux, and Connes, 1995).

  3. 3.

    PONG is the name of what is commonly referred to as the “first video game” and was produced by Atari (Winter, 1999). The mentioned inscription was the last of three lines serving as “the first minimal manual”, the other two being “Deposit Quarter. Ball will serve automatically”.

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    Site out of service. http://web.archive.org/web/20040930175437/textbased.com/minimalist/

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Obendorf, H. (2009). Minimalism: Introduction and Synopsis. In: Minimalism. Human-Computer Interaction Series. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-371-6_1

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