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Cubics of historical recovery

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These words seem to summarize well a trend that often happened in history: an individual, or a civilization, rises from obscurity, reaches a peak, then falls to a minimum, but finally rises again and at such a high speed that even all previous achievements are dwarfed.

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  1. International Academy of Astronautics and Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, Via Martorelli 43, 10155, Torino (Turin), Italy

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Maccone, C. (2012). Cubics of historical recovery. In: Mathematical SETI. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27437-4_10

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