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#209 – Luís and João Batalha: Fermat’s Library and the Art of Studying Papers

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How Do You Achieve Successful Aditations for a Paper Like This?

Mathematicians and engineers a lot of things. Because they didn't have computers or drones or lightar backtan, or whatever technology would use modern day for civil engineering. After the downfall of the roman civilization, people didn't build tunnels for about a thousand years. And then, like onley and ligin late middle ages, thed thare, we start doing them again. But, but here is the tunnel, like, sixth century b c. It was a mystery foror on time, exactly how they did itd...and then these mathematicians went there, n andan, basic, with no archaeology on a background, we're able to figure it out

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