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Is It Disgraceful to Present a Book of Mathematics to a Queen?

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Acknowledgments

I would like to express my gratitude to Mark Richards and Robin Wilson for their help in the preparation of this paper. I am also very grateful to Charlie Lovett and Edward Wakeling for providing the illustrations in this paper from their archival collections. This paper draws on research support from the ERC project “Abduction in the age of uncertainty” (PUT 1305, Principal Investigator: Prof. Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen).

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Moktefi, A. Is It Disgraceful to Present a Book of Mathematics to a Queen?. Math Intelligencer 41, 42–50 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00283-018-9843-1

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