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“Before creation, God did just pure mathematics. Then He thought it would be a pleasant change to do some applied.”

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John Edensor Littlewood

John Edensor Littlewood was an outstanding British mathematician known for his contributions to number theory, analysis, and probability theory. His research spanned a wide range of areas including group theory in number theory, number-theoretic functions, and limit theorems in probability theory. more

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