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A Rosetta Stone for Mathematics

"Weil’s Rosetta stone linked three fields of mathematics: number theory, geometry, and, in the middle, the study of finite fields.

Other mathematicians had proposed ideas in this direction, but Weil was the first to spell out an exact vision."

quantamagazine.org/a-rosetta-s

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