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Pimm, D., Sinclair, N. Explaining Beauty in Mathematics: An Aesthetic Theory of Mathematics by Ulianov Montano . Math Intelligencer 39, 79–81 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00283-016-9636-3
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