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When the mathematicians of almost all the world gathered for their first post-war congress in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the summer of 1950, “American mathematics” had experienced a metamorphosis.

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Albers, D., Alexanderson, G., Reid, C. (1987). Cambridge 1950. In: International Mathematical Congresses. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-8710-7_13

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