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Mathematics and the Triumph of the Human Intellect

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A mathematician being inspired to solve a problem. Frontispiece of Algebra by Abel Burja (1786)

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Cunningham, C. (2016). Mathematics and the Triumph of the Human Intellect. In: Early Investigations of Ceres and the Discovery of Pallas. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28815-4_1

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