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Mathematicians delight in pointing out how much the sciences owe to mathematics, but it is only fair to record the converse: mathematics owes just as much to the sciences. Indeed, many mathematicians regard the sciences as subjects which, though useful in themselves, are mainly there to provide interesting new mathematical problems.
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Walsh, J.B. (2012). An Open Problem. In: Kranakis, E. (eds) Advances in Network Analysis and its Applications. Mathematics in Industry, vol 18. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30904-5_4
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