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A Compendium of Mathematical Methods
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In 2018, scientists discovered a new shape that is essential to multicellular life
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An adventure that starts with a morning of bell ringing and ends with a mad dash in a taxi
The pipe singularity
In the Aztec city of Atzlan, the scientist Remotep makes a revolutionary discovery