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A paper read to an undergraduate mathematical society, the Quintics, in Cambridge on October 29th, 1986, and published in the Cambridge undergraduate magazineEureka in 1987. This revision has been made in the light of helpful criticisms from Sir Peter Swinnerton-Dyer, Bart, Professor Saunders MacLane, Dr. Francisco Corella, Dr. Paolo Mancosu, Dr. Gerard Bricogne, and many others.

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Mathias, A.R.D. The ignorance of bourbaki. The Mathematical Intelligencer 14, 4–13 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03025863

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