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What happened in mathematics since the mid thirties of the XX century to the early eighties of the same century is deeply characterized, in my opinion, by the following two highly momentous developments, one intrinsic to the mathematical community the other forced on it by the new visions of theoretical physics.

M. Poincaré a écrit que dans les Sciences mathématiques une

bonne notation a la même importance philosophique qu’une

bonne classification dans les Sciences naturelles. Évidemment,

et même avec plus de raison, on peut en dire autant des

méthodes, car c’est bien de leur choix que dépend la possibilité

de forcer (pour nous servir encore des paroles de lillustre

géomètre francais) une multitude de faits sans aucun lien

apparent à se grouper suivant leurs affinités naturelles.

Ricci and Levi-Civita

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  1. P.G. Fré, A Conceptual History of Symmetry from Plato to the Superworld (Springer, Berlin, 2018)

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Fré, P.G. (2018). Epilogue. In: Advances in Geometry and Lie Algebras from Supergravity. Theoretical and Mathematical Physics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74491-9_9

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