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A wonderful account of this is given in Ellenberg's "How Not to Be Wrong": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_Not_to_Be_Wrong

I highly recommend the book; it is a popular mathematics book, written by a real mathematician, discussing some real mathematics, with an engaging style.







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