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Previato, E. (1996). Seventy years of spectral curves: 1923–1993. In: Francaviglia, M., Greco, S. (eds) Integrable Systems and Quantum Groups. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 1620. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0094795

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