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Eric Temple Bell - Out of fifty mathematical papers...
Out of fifty mathematical papers presented in brief at such a meeting, it is a rare mathematician indeed who really understands what more than half a dozen are about. (Eric Temple Bell)

Out of fifty mathematical papers presented in brief at such a meeting, it is a rare mathematician indeed who really understands what more than half a dozen are about.

Eric Temple Bell

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