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Once upon a time ... a French professor of mathematics had two excellent students, far above the other ones and so good that, whenever one was not the first at an examination, the other was and vice versa. However, the minds of these two students were quite different: one was more attracted by the possibility to pass from explicit examples to high level abstract ideas, while the second hated to compute and was more concerned with logic through the use of computers. Of course, the professor was desperately wanting to know who was indeed the brightest student.
‘God created the integers, men made the remaining’ (Kronecker) ... but surely the Devil let them conceive partial differential equations!
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Pommaret, JF. (1994). Introduction. In: Partial Differential Equations and Group Theory. Mathematics and Its Applications, vol 293. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2539-2_1
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