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Because the field is "on fire." Hilbert is not a bad place to start, and I found this book clear and biographical in a good way.

We should all be reading more mathematics these days, right?

It is less on the math and more closely tied to broader German history.

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Because the field is "on fire." Hilbert is not a bad place to start, and I found this book clear and biographical in a good way. We should all be reading more mathematics these days, right? It is less on the math and more closely tied to broader German history.

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We should all be reading more mathematics these days, right? It is less on the math and more closely tied to broader German history.

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