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“Computer assisted proofs are getting better and better and computers will play a bigger and bigger role in the future.”

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Enrico Bombieri

Enrico Bombieri is an Italian mathematician renowned for his research in number theory and partial differential equations. Born on November 26, 1940, he is considered one of the most outstanding mathematicians of the 20th and 21st centuries. more

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