When Least Is Best: How Mathematicians Discovered Many Clever Ways to Make Things as Small (or as Large) as Possible
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- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN-13
- 9780691218762
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Published
- May 18, 2021
- Pages
- 406
- Weight
- 12.8 oz
- Subject
- Mathematics
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