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By Snow-Leavis Posted on Jul 4, 2019July 4, 2019

‘An energetic and brilliant (if quirky) polymath’

The following account of Dr Arthur Brock (1879-1947) is from this paper by David Cantor:

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By Snow-Leavis Posted on Jun 8, 2019June 8, 2019

Hints

I would suggest that these hints matter today as much as any time in history:

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