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A different perspective on the history of the proof of Hall conductance quantization

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Hastings, M.B. A different perspective on the history of the proof of Hall conductance quantization. Nat Rev Phys 2, 723 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42254-020-00255-5

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