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Stairway to Heaven: The Abstract Method and Levels of Abstraction in Mathematics

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Marquis, P. Stairway to Heaven: The Abstract Method and Levels of Abstraction in Mathematics. Math Intelligencer 38, 41–51 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00283-016-9672-z

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