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By reviewing relevant historical events and facts as well as some results achieved at AIMR, we argued in this book for the importance of a mathematics–materials science collaboration as progenitor to the next breakthroughs and innovations.

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Ikeda, S., Kotani, M. (2015). Epilogue. In: A New Direction in Mathematics for Materials Science. SpringerBriefs in the Mathematics of Materials, vol 1. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-55864-4_5

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