Unfashionable pursuits

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This talk was delivered to the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Bi-National Colloquium for Humboldt Awardees in cooperation with the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, New Jersey, on August 24, 1981. The talk was subsequently published by Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung in theProceedings of that conference and also in theMitteilungen (January 1983, No. 41).The Intelligencer wishes to thank the author and Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung for their permission to reprint this article.

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Dyson, F.J. Unfashionable pursuits. The Mathematical Intelligencer 5, 47–54 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03026573

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