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Alex Bellos

“Mathematicians have, according to Wright, been "unreasonably successful" in finding applications to apparently useless theorems, and often years after the theorems were first discovered.”

Alex Bellos, Here's Looking at Euclid: A Surprising Excursion Through the Astonishing World of Math
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