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The Double Twist: From Ethnography to Morphodynamics edited by Pierre Maranda The Artist and the Mathematician: The Story of Nicolas Bourbaki, the Genius Mathematician Who Never Existed by Amir D. Aczel

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Pekonen, O. The Double Twist: From Ethnography to Morphodynamics edited by Pierre Maranda The Artist and the Mathematician: The Story of Nicolas Bourbaki, the Genius Mathematician Who Never Existed by Amir D. Aczel . Math Intelligencer 31, 57–61 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00283-009-9065-7

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