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Additional Information
- Jeremy Gray
- Affiliation: (Gray) Centre for the History of the Mathematical Sciences, Open University, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, U.K.
- Mario Micallef
- Affiliation: (Micallef) Mathematics Institute, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, U.K.
- Received by editor(s): June 11, 2007
- Received by editor(s) in revised form: August 20, 2007
- Published electronically: February 14, 2008
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- MSC (2000): Primary 01A60, 53A10, 58E12
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-08-01192-0
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