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Alex Kontorovich on the Absolute Truth of Pure Math

The Joy of x

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X I Z - I'm Not Getting This Membership

When alex first applied to work with borgan at princeton, he got the sense he wasn't going to be accepted. "So i guess i'm not getting this membership," Alex thought. But it turned out that his application was rejected because of Peter sarna's previous work for him. The two are now working together on new books about number theory.

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