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Meeting under the Integral Sign? The Oslo Congress of Mathematicians on the Eve of the Second World War by Christopher D. Hollings and Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze

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Tazzioli, R. Meeting under the Integral Sign? The Oslo Congress of Mathematicians on the Eve of the Second World War by Christopher D. Hollings and Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze. Math Intelligencer 44, 175–180 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00283-021-10066-w

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