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Daniel Litt

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Assistant professor (of mathematics) at the University of Toronto. Algebraic geometry, number theory, forever distracted and confused, etc. He/him.

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Gotthold Eisenstein was one of the most important mathematicians of the 19th century; despite his death of tuberculosis in 1852 at the age of 29, Gauss apparently put him in the same league as Archimedes and Newton. This thread is about a mystery from his last paper. 1/n

Gotthold Eisenstein was one of the most important mathematicians of the 19th century; despite his death of tuberculosis in 1852 at the age of 29, Gauss apparently put him in the same league as Archimedes and Newton. This thread is about a mystery from his last paper. 1/n