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2


Oliver Sacks, Seeing Voices: AJourney into theWorld ofthe Deaf (Berkeley: University ofCalifornia Press, 1989).     ,     .




3


Albert Einstein, TheLate Emmy Noether, TheNewYork Times, May4, 1935.




4


Karen Olsson, TheWeil Conjectures: OnMath andthe Pursuit ofthe Unknown (NewYork: Farrar, Straus andGiroux, 2019).




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Jorge Luis Borges, Collected Fictions (London: Penguin Putnam, 1998).




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Ursula LeGuin, AWizard ofEarthsea (NewYork: Houghton Mifflin, 1968).




10


., , Alice Clapman andBen Goldstein, Hand-Counting Votes: AProven Bad Idea, Brennan Center forJustice, November23, 2022, https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/hand-counting-votes-proven-bad-idea (https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/hand-counting-votes-proven-bad-idea).




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    . . David Wells, ThePenguin Dictionary ofCurious andInteresting Numbers (London: Penguin, 1997).




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    . ,    TED,   1,5 ,      . How Video Game Skills Can Get You Ahead inLife. Posted March2021, https://www.ted.com/talks/william_collis _how_video_game_skills_can_get_you_ahead_in_life.




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Lewis Carroll, Through theLooking Glass (1871), Project Gutenberg, https://www.gutenberg.org/files/12/12-h/12-h.htm (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/12/12-h/12-h.htm).




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Charalampos Lemonidis andAnastasios Gkolfos, Number Line inthe History andthe Education ofMathematics, Inovacije UNastavi 33 (March2020): 3656, 10.5937/inovacije2001036L.




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Wells, Penguin Dictionary ofCurious andInteresting Numbers.




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J.J. OConnor andE. F. Robertson, Frances Maseres, MacTutor History ofMathematics Archive, accessed May15, 2023, last updated 2004, https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Maseres/ (https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Maseres/).


