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The way of mathematical thought is twofold: the mathematician first proceeds inductively from the particular to the general and then deductively from the general to the particular. Moreover, throughout its development, mathematics has shown two aspects - the conceptual and the computational - the symphonic interleaving of which forms one of the major aspects of the subject’s aesthetic.
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Golan, J.S. (2007). Fields. In: The Linear Algebra a Beginning Graduate Student Ought to Know. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5495-2_2
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