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

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How Much of the Human Backstory Is Important in Understanding the Idea?

Back story gives way more context to the work scientists do. The definement cued paper is a good example. fineman was actually going through a pretty dark pase before writing that paper. And i think it's its there are a lot of really interesting back stories about papers that readers never get to know.

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