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Math Goes to the Movies by Burkard Polster and Marty Ross

BALTIMORE, MARYLAND: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2012, 287 PP., ISBN 1421404842

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Gray, M.W. Math Goes to the Movies by Burkard Polster and Marty Ross . Math Intelligencer 38, 90–92 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00283-015-9574-5

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