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“Who of us would not be glad to lift the veil behind which the future lies hidden; to cast a glance at the next advances of our science and at the secrets of its development during future centuries?” Thus David Hilbert began his historic speech on mathematical problems at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1900.
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Albers, D., Alexanderson, G., Reid, C. (1986). Hilbert. In: International Mathematical Congresses. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-0299-5_4
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