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The reader may be interested in the history of the origin of the series of ideas which have been discussed in this book.
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Monastyrsky, M. (1999). A Brief Historical Survey. In: Riemann, Topology, and Physics. Modern Birkhäuser Classics. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-8176-4779-7_18
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