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We give a brief biographical sketch of the Russian mathematician Viktor Vladimirovich Wagner (1908–1981), together with an indication of the main themes of his work.
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Hollings, C.D., Lawson, M.V. (2017). Viktor Vladimirovich Wagner (1908–1981). In: Wagner’s Theory of Generalised Heaps. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63621-4_2
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