Ian Stewart, “The Joy of Mathematics” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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A History of Mathematical Problems
i think there are so many ways to for things to go wrong, and it's a rather narrow path to keep them right. So they put me up into the top class, and i never look back. But it does make you wonder how many other people who didn't have a mother, who was so conscientious and so determined, who who had, by coincidence, broken their collar bone. And we're bored, and perhapsha just not paid attention, or what have you. Who have been lostto not only mathematics history, but to society.
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