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The following is based on a lecture delivered on 22 August 1998 at a symposium held at the Berlin ICM. I wish to thank the symposium organizers, Georgio Israel and Eberhard Knobloch, for inviting me.
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Gray, J., Rowe, D.E. Episodes in the Berlin-Göttingen Rivalry, 1870-1930. The Mathematical Intelligencer 22, 60–69 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03024449
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