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References and Notes Note: Except for the widely used spellings of Egorov and Florensky, I have tried to use a consistent transliteration scheme.

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Ford, C.E. Dmitrii Egorov: Mathematics and religion in moscow. The Mathematical Intelligencer 13, 24–30 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03024083

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