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| | The Philosophy of Real Mathematics - Ideas |
 | | This regularity, at first blush so simple, is the germ of one of the major branches of the higher number theory and was the central theme of the development that began with Euler and Legendre in the eighteenth century, and continued down to our own time, with contributions by Gauss, Kummer, Takagi, and Artin. |
 | | Garling brought up the case of three-dimensional topology, a subject to which Poincaré himself made very significant contributions, posing one of the central conjectures of the field that a three-dimensional manifold homotopic to the 3-sphere is homeomorphic to it. |
 | | The philosophy of geometry has become a sub-branch of philosophy of physics. |
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