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On "The Strangest Man"
Well written, fascinating stories form the life of one of the most remarkable physicists of recent times.

A very Strange Man Indeed
A good read but only if one like Physics and Mathematics, knows what electrons and photons aree all about otherwise stay away for it will bore you.

Entertaining
Graham Farmelo has written a very entertaining book detailing the life of Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac who was considered odd by his colleagues in physics who are a somewhat eccentric group in their own right.By taking poetic license, he tells the story of Dirac's life in such a way that the story comes alive.My only criticism which would only apply to other physicists reading the book is that there are no equations.Farmelo describes the physics well but he could have delineated the actual equations.Nonetheless, I give this a five star rating since it is well written, entertaining, and accessible to all.

good
In honor of Dirac, man of (virtually) no words, I present the following review:

Did you like this book?

Yes.

What did you like about it?

Many things.

What is your impression of Dirac?

Interesting.

Would you recommend this book?

Yes.

Could you explain to the readers why Dirac is considered such an important figure in the history of physics?

No.

Thank you.

Great book for physics lovers!
This is a biography of Dirac that illuminates the man and his accomplishments in a detailed and insightful way.In addition to providing insight into Dirac's personal life, the book actually helps the physics maven (like me) to understand some of his theoretical physics discoveries by describing the difficulties of the situation that the work was trying to resolve.

Highly recommended! ... Read more

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Four concise, brilliant lectures on mathematical methods in quantum mechanics from Nobel Prize–winning quantum pioneer. The first lecture is an introduction to visualizing quantum theory through the use of classical mechanics. The remaining lectures build on that idea, showing how one can start with a classical field theory and end up with a quantum field theory, and examining the possibility of building a relativistic quantum theory on curved surfaces or flat surfaces.
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A necessary book for those who love quantum mechanics
I have no doubt: this is a necessary book for those who love quantum mechanics.

Simple and light
Very simple and light book about foundations of quantum mechanics. No one should expect any enhancement of knowledge. It is interesting title from rather historical point of view.

Short and good
This book is really fun it contains a series of lectures given by Dirac, although it is really really short it is well worth its price because it gives you a good view in the problems of Quantum Mech of the time

not for beginners
If you have 5 books on Quantum mechanics already and are a big fan of Dirac, then this is O.K.
The book is a set of lectures that are not for beginners
( the audience was best and brightest professors at Yeshiva.)
I get the personal feeling that Paul Dirac should have read more Klein on group invariants,
more Weyl on gauge theory, and more Cartan on Lie Algebra theory,
but there is no doubt that he knew what he was talking about
and was the master of field quantization. Just not showing well here...

A must have
From the master himself: Paul Dirac. Very sharp, to-the-point and complete overview of the Quantum Theory. But from Dirac's point of view it's an interesting angle to review things. ... Read more

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Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac was one of the founders of quantum theory. He is numbered alongside Newton, Maxwell and Einstein as one of the greatest physicists of all time. Together the lectures in this volume, originally presented on the occasion of the dedication ceremony for a plaque honoringDirac in Westminster Abbey, give a unique insight into the relationship between Dirac's character and his scientific achievements. The text begins with the dedication address given by Stephen Hawking at the ceremony. Then Abraham Pais describes Dirac as a person and his approach to his work. Maurice Jacob explains how Dirac was led to introduce the concept of antimatter, and its central role in modern particle physics and cosmology. This is followed by David Olive's account of the origin and enduring influence of Dirac's work on magnetic monopoles. Finally, Sir Michael Atiyah explains the deep and widespread significance of the Dirac equation in mathematics. ... Read more

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Marvelous scientific biography
I have ofter wondered about Dirac who I consider the mystery man of quantum physics. He seemed to be totally consumed my the underlying mathematics of physics, at the same time he was so naive about the trifles of human interchanges. This is a concise and illuminating history and I assume, the one that another recent book about Dirac is based. The book clears the clouds.

A Tribute to a Brilliant Man
A man Stephen Hawking calls 'probably the greatest British theoretical physicist since Newton,' has got to be a pretty bright man. Paul Dirac wrote the definitive equasion that joined the Theory of Relativity and Quantum Mechanics. Like Einstein before him, his equasion is very simple to express, very complex in its overall impact. It explains things like how television sets or computers work.

This book is not exactly a biography, but more a tribute to him. It is a series of four talks given about Dirac eleven years after his death, upon the dedication of a plack to him in Westminster Abby.

Abraham Pais describes Dirac's character and his approach to his work.

Maurice Jacob explains not only how and why Dirac was led to introduce the concept of antimatter, but also its central role in modern particle physics and cosmology.

David Olive gives an account of Dirac's work on magnetic monopoles and shows how it has had a profound influence in the development of fundamental physics down to the present day.

Sir Michael Atiyah explains the widespread significance of the Dirac equation in mathematics, its roots in algebra and its implications for geometry and topology.

Paul Dirac - The man and his work
We were ourselves participating in the inauguration of the Paul Dirac memorial in Westminster Abbey. Especially the speeches of Stephan Hawking and Abraham Pais were very touching as they did not only touch Dirac's workbut also his personality and life. He was a very complex person and a greatphysicist. This book reflects that more than others about him.

An insightful recollection of a nearly invisible genius.
After missing the first collection of essays on this brilliant recluse published soon after his death, Ipicked up the present version as soon as I was able. It did not disappoint.

The book is a collection of four lectures given in the subject's honor in 1995 on the tenth anniversary ofhis death. The final lecture and the latter part of the third are highlymathematical and technical and clearly intended for a professionalaudience.

But for me, the first lecture by Abraham Pais is worth thepurchase price alone.Pais was not only a contemporary physicist, but alsoa close friend and as close to a confidant as was possible with such areticent man.

Through Pais' eyes, we see a mathematician turned physicistwho was very different from the man to whom Dirac is most frequentlycompared, Albert Einstein.Einstein was a physicist first, mathematiciansecond.Dirac was exactly the opposite.Einstein became a social andpolitical critic, Dirac never strayed far from his study.The two weresimilar in that both viewed mathematical beauty as primary and both hatedthe modern remake of quantum mechanics (after the initial theory) for verysimilar reasons.This last point was interesting as Dirac was the firstone to combine all his contemporaries' work on this improved quantumphysics into a formal mathematical structure.His resulting equation,called naturally the Dirac equation, is classic Dirac, short and sweet. Itcombined Einsteinian relativity with the new quantum theory and Diracconsidered the result to govern most of physics and all of chemistry. Stephen Hawking, the renowned theoretical physicist, says in hisintroductory memorial address to the book, "If Dirac had patented theequation ... he would have become one of the richest men in the world.Every television set or computer would have paid him royalties."For thiswork, Dirac shared the 1933 Nobel Prize with German physicist ErwinSchroedinger.One unexpected consequence of this work was a mathematicalconclusion that defined a "negative energy" matter (aka antimatter)solution. Simply put, he had discovered a universe noone had imagined.Tothis day, we see the effects of this discovery from medical necessities(PET scan imaging-Positron Emission Tomography) to science fiction (StarTrek).

The quotations and anecdotes Pais chooses are well placed andoften very funny.They are also supported by theimages of Diracportrayed in the sketch on the cover and in the few photographs scatteredthrough the first two lectures.They reveal his character well.He sawmathematical and physical realities so clearly that he simply could notunderstand why others did not see them as well.The photo of him"listening" to future Nobel Laureate Richard Feynman in Maurice Jacob'ssection is one of the most amusing of the collection.

In the secondlecture, Jacob shows the path of discovery and effect on latter dayexperimental physics of antimatter.He goes too long in spots but isgenerally fine. ... Read more

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A compilation of previously unpublished lectures delivered at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics by the pioneers and creators of modern physics --Bethe, Dirac, Heisenberg, Wigner, Klein and Landau (the sixth delivered by E Lifshitz). By sharing with us their own lives of physics, these outstanding physicists convey the sense of total dedication, the pleasure and elegance of scientific creation at its peak. Readers would acquire a deeper sense of the scope and nature of physics, and the insights of its fascinating diverse disciplines as the developments of modern physics are being unfolded through history.

Contents: Foreword: Twenty-One Years After (Abdus Salam); Energy on Earth and in the Stars (H A Bethe); Methods in Theoretical Physics (P A M Dirac); Theory, Criticism and a Philosophy (W Heisenberg); The Scientist and Society (E P Wigner); From My Life of Physics (O Klein); Landau Great Scientist and Teacher (tribute by E M Lifshitz). ... Read more

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Meet the Heros
This is a collection of lectures (I suppose in 1968) by those authoritieswho actually created the physic as we know it today. Very much accessibleand provides a rare chance to look into the minds of the giants. Tointroduce some of them:

Hans Bethe. A teacher, collaborator, and goodfriend of R.P. Feynman. Participated in the Manhattan Project and helpedcreate the bomb. The man who first realized what fuels the sun. Got hisNobel Prize for this realization (1967, thermonuclear processes).

P.A.M.Dirac. Created relativistic quantum mechanics and so-called the"symbolic formulation" of quantum mechanics (the bra-ketnotation). His theory formed a basis for later developments of quantumelectrodynamics (QED). More of a mathematician. Had a very deep faith inmathematics. Seldom talked in public.

Werner Heisenberg. Father of _the_quantum machanics. His formulation parallels Erwin Schrodinger's in that,though they used different mathematical languages, they described the samething. Heisenberg's so-called "matrix formulation" was madepossible by his great collaborators, i.e., Jordan, Born and Bohr. He was inthe German camp when the major forces concentrated their powers indeveloping the A-bomb. Heisenberg had thought an A-bomb was a theoreticalimpossibility. Philosophically, he was forever a disciple of Niels Bohr.With Bohr, he was the guru of an orthodox interpretation of quantummechanics, known as the Copenhagen Interpretation.

Eugene Wigner. Amathematician who won a Nobel prize in physics. A classmate of J. von.Neumann. He had a kind and gentle personality (quite rare among famousphysicists). Wigner was the man who gave a Ph.D. to E. Jaynes, who wasdoing research on QED under Oppenheimer and had some difficulties inaccepting quantum mechanics. Wigner, too, had troubles with the CopenhagenInterpretation and presented a unique interpretation that takesconsciousness into account. To most of us, known by his 3-j symbol.

Toobad that Landau (a god figure in condensed matter physics) was not there toshare his insights. ... Read more

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In this memorial volume, twenty-four of Dirac's closest friends, colleagues and contemporaries remember him with affection.Dirac, who died in 1984, was unquestionably one of the greatest physicists of the twentieth century.The book describes his human side, with many anecdotes about the man with a reputation for silence.His immense influence on modern physics is surveyed in chapters written by eminent scientists.Dirac was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1933 at the age of thiry-one.His tremendous contributions to the field included his prediction of the magnetic moment and antiparticles as well as the spin of the electron.His formulations of the quantum field theory, statistics of particles and fields, his work on gravitational waves, and his prediction of magnetic monopoles stand as monuments to his originality and deep understanding of natural phenomena.This book will appeal to anyone interested in the development of quantum theory or in Paul Dirac. ... Read more

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Paul Dirac, who died in 1984, was one of the greatest physicists of the twentieth century. The warm regard in which he was held, both personally and professionally, by his colleagues shines through each of the contributions to this memorial volume. Most of the articles in this book were first presented at the Dirac Memorial Meeting held in Cambridge in 1985, at which many of Dirac's contemporaries and former students gathered together to commemorate his life and work. Some of the more personal reminiscences offer us a unique glimpse of the character of Dirac - who always remained and intensely private person, shunning honours and publicity even when he was widely regarded as one of the greatest sceintists of our time. This volume also contains a biographical sketch of Dirac and studies Dirac's important contributions to physics and mathematics, which should offer valuable summaries for all those who are interested in the history of modern physics and the development of ideas of quantum mechanics in the twentieth century. ... Read more

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This 1984 book brings together 48 studies and essays written by physicists from around the world to mark the 90th birthday of Louis de Broglie and the 80th birthdays of Paul Dirac and Eugene Wigner. Publication under one cover of studies based on the discoveries of scientific personalities as diverse as those to whom this volume is dedicated serves at least one important purpose: it concretely reflects the rival pathways in quantum physics at the time of this book's publication. From one perspective, the papers contrast the strategies of a champion of the mathematical approach (Wigner) with those of a thinker who relied on physical intuition (de Broglie). From another, they compare the views of a defender (Wigner) and and opponent of the Copenhagen school (de Broglie), as well as those of an individual who helped to reconstruct the prevailing quantal paradigm, only later to advocate a return to causality (Dirac). ... Read more

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Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Paul Dirac, Jaco Pastorius, Georgios Papanikolaou, Cesare Emiliani, Jaime Correa, Donna Shalala, Colin Mcginn, Earl Wilbur Sutherland, Jr., Ruth Bryan Owen, Robert F. Furchgott, Modesto Maidique, Vincent Scully, Kevin Mahogany, Walter Darby Bannard, Carolyne M. Van Vliet, Fred D'aguiar, John Hart Ely, Susan Haack, Keith Lehrer, Stefan Brecht, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Behram Kurşunoğlu, Frank Cooper, Lester Goran, Shihab S. Asfour, Ivan Petrella, Nilda Peragallo, Vincent J. Cardinal, José Carlos Millás, Thomas Sleeper, Charlton W. Tebeau, Alan Heldman, James M. Tien, Bernard Benstock, Paul R. Verkuil, Alfred Reed, O. R. Dathorne, Peter Hargitai, Neil F. Johnson, John Jay Osborn, Jr., Catherine Tufariello, Jack Clay, John A. Powell, Paul Posnak, Craig Morris, Bruce Winick, Guido Ruggiero, Abraham Lavender, Gary Green, Arnold H. Green, Christopher Layne, Samuel H. Gruber, Andrew Barton, Harm de Blij, Michael Slote, Neil Wallace, Ney Rosauro, Peter Lewis, Deborah Mash, Hugo Achúgar, Stephen Urice, Ivan Davis, Shelly Berg, Pascal J. Goldschmidt, Bonnie Seeman, Edward L. Dreyer, Paul Wilson, Peter Burleigh. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: John Francis Anthony "Jaco" Pastorius III (December 1, 1951 September 21, 1987) was an American jazz musician and composer widely acknowledged for his skills as an electric bass player. His playing style was noteworthy for containing intricate solos in the higher register. His innovations also included the use of harmonics and the "singing" quality of his melodies on fretless bass. Pastorius suffered from mental illness and substance abuse, and was diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 1982. He died in 1987 at age 35 following a violent altercation at a Fort Lauderdale drinking establishment. Jaco was inducted into the D...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=148786 ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Paul Dirac, Ernest Rutherford, John William Strutt Rayleigh, Humphry Davy, Michael Faraday, Robert Hooke, Oliver Heaviside, Roger Penrose, James Prescott Joule, Thomas Young, Robert Grossetête, Arthur Eddington, William Henry Bragg, Stephen Gray, Joseph John Thomson, Charles William Oatley, Thomas Bradwardine, William Lawrence Bragg, Louis Gray, William Thomson, Henry Cavendish, Moshe Feldenkrais, John Dalton, James Chadwick, Arthur Schuster, Francis Crick, Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, John Cockcroft, Brandon Carter, John Michell, Otto Frisch, George Paget Thomson, Donald Davies, Peter A. Sturrock, Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, William Crookes, Ralph H. Fowler, Owen Willans Richardson, William Astbury, James Dewar, George Green, Nevill Mott, Peter Mansfield, Antony Hewish, Samuel Hunter Christie, Peter Barlow, William Hyde Wollaston, Patrick Blackett, Jocelyn Bell, Russell Stannard, George Dawson Preston, Cecil Frank Powell, Max Born, Anthony Leggett, Maurice Wilkins, Nicholas Kurti, Brian David Josephson, Edward Arthur Milne, Charles Glover Barkla, William Snow Harris, Edward Appleton, John Desmond Bernal, William Gilbert, John Frederic Daniell, Osborne Reynolds, Donald Maccrimmon Mackay, Peter Higgs, William Prout, Julia Higgins, William Watson, John Henry Poynting, Francis Hauksbee, Cyril Frank Colebrook, Samuel Vince, Henry Moseley, Arthur Geoffrey Walker, Athene Donald, David Deutsch, John James Waterston, John Lennard-Jones, John Canton, Banesh Hoffmann, Sir Michael Berry, Richard de Villamil, Paul Davies, Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, Charles Cavendish, Roger Tayler, Joseph Swan, Oliver Lodge, George Cayley, Julian Barbour, Andrew Noble, Frank Close, John Turberville Needham, George Atwood, John Kerr, John Hopkinson, Jeffre...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Paul Dirac, Alfred Jules Ayer, Peter Mark Roget, Sir John Brunner, 1st Baronet, George Prévost, Claire Bertschinger, Marea Hartman, Oliver Dimsdale, Peter Arne, Joseph Planta, Joseph Planta, Basil Eugster, Marguerite, Baroness de Reuter, Peter Thellusson, Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy. Excerpt:Alfred Jules Ayer Sir Alfred Jules Ayer (29 October 1910 27 June 1989), better known as A. J. Ayer or "Freddie" to friends, was a British philosopher known for his promotion of logical positivism , particularly in his books Language, Truth and Logic (1936) and The Problem of Knowledge (1956). Ayer was the Grote Professor of the Philosophy of Mind and Logic at University College London from 1946 until 1959, when he became Wykeham Professor of Logic at the University of Oxford . He was president of the Aristotelian Society from 1951 to 1952. He was knighted in 1970. Life Ayer was born into a wealthy family of continental origin. His mother, Reine Citroën , was from the Dutch-Jewish family who founded the Citroën car company in France. His father Jules Ayer was a Swiss Calvinist financier who worked for the Rothschild family . He grew up in St John's Wood , London . He was educated at Ascham St Vincent's Preparatory School and Eton , and then won a classics scholarship to Christ Church, Oxford . He served as an officer in the Welsh Guards during World War II , working for the SOE . He was a noted social mixer and womanizer, and was married four times, including to Dee Wells and Vanessa Lawson (mother of Nigella Lawson ). Reputedly he liked dancing and attending the clubs in London and New York . He was also obsessed with sports, a noted cricketer, and a keen supporter of the Tottenham Hotspur football team. Ayer was a well-known social figure in his time, and his circle of friends included many f... ... Read more

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Chapters: Paul Dirac, Robert S. Mulliken, James M. Buchanan, Harry Kroto, Marion Tinsley, Pete Peterson, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, Robert Olen Butler, Charles Figley, George R. Fischer, Donald A. Crosby, R. Mark Isaac, Franciszek Zachara, Norman Thagard, Ernő Dohnányi, Louis Shores, Michael K. Faught, John Scholz, Stuart M. Kaminsky, Robert Tollison, Suzanne Farrell, Cecile Reynaud, Carlisle Floyd, Max Gunzburger, John Robert Schrieffer, Gary Taylor, Rodney Jory, Justin Leiber, Michael Ruse, Roy Baumeister, M. Yousuff Hussaini, Tyler Turkle, Elena Nikolaidi, David Kirby, Sandy D'alemberte, Scott Makar, John S. Tanner, Edward J. Perkins, Jim Rossi, Jaakko Hintikka, Enid Shomer, T. K. Wetherell, Michael Berenbaum, Ryan G. Van Cleave, David Larbalestier, Frederick L. Jenks, Shawn Bayern, Achim Richter, Gary Kleck, Nathan Stoltzfus, Kenneth S. Wagoner, Marcus Roberts, John Blackburn, Robert W. Fichter, Erin Belieu, Wayne A. Wiegand, Debabrata Basu, Mark Winegardner, Anders Ericsson, Alfred Mele, Thomas R. Dye, Robert Gellately, Janice Harsanyi, Toussaint Hočevar, Bruce L. Benson, John Kelsay, Mike Mcqueen, Patrick C. Kennell, David Schmidtz, Austin Mast, Gloria Jahoda, Michael Shaara, Dean Falk, George Marsaglia, Michael Kasha, Michael Pollock, William H. Heard, Randolph Clarke, Allen Sapp, Eric J. Barron, Alan G. Marshall, S. E. Gontarski, James Kimbrell, Patrick Meighan, Sumner Twiss, Zoran Jovičić, Darryl Dickson-Carr, John Corrigan, John Marks, Brian Segal, Victor S. Mamatey, Edward L. Palmer, Ladislav Kubík, H. Winter Griffith, Randall G. Holcombe, Victor Nuñez, Ferid Muhić, John Boda, J. B. Ruhl, Barbara Hamby, Na'im Akbar, Imre Friedmann, Valentine Mason Johnson, Vadim Komkov, Robin Kundis Craig, Robert Neuman, Darrin Mcmahon, Robert B. Bradley, Steven Gey, Friedrich Stephan, Kenneth Roux, Joseph Beckham, Neal Kenyon, Robert A. Holton, Donald Caspar, Lev Gor'kov, Stephan Von Molnár, Hunt Hawkins, Felipe Korzenny, Lawrence G. A...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=24742 ... Read more

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Chapters: Isaac Newton, Charles Babbage, Paul Dirac, Isaac Barrow, Edward Waring, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, Stephen Hawking, George Biddell Airy, Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet, William Whiston, Joseph Larmor, James Lighthill, Isaac Milner, Robert Woodhouse, Thomas Turton, John Colson. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 146. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Sir Isaac Newton FRS (4 January 1643 31 March 1727 ) was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, and theologian who is considered by many scholars and members of the general public to be one of the most influential people in human history. His 1687 publication of the Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (usually called the Principia) is considered to be among the most influential books in the history of science, laying the groundwork for most of classical mechanics. In this work, Newton described universal gravitation and the three laws of motion which dominated the scientific view of the physical universe for the next three centuries. Newton showed that the motions of objects on Earth and of celestial bodies are governed by the same set of natural laws by demonstrating the consistency between Kepler's laws of planetary motion and his theory of gravitation, thus removing the last doubts about heliocentrism and advancing the scientific revolution. Newton also built the first practical reflecting telescope and developed a theory of colour based on the observation that a prism decomposes white light into the many colours that form the visible spectrum. He also formulated an empirical law of cooling and studied the speed of sound. In mathematics, Newton shares the credit with Gottfried Leibniz for the development of the differential and integral calculus. He also demonstrated the...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=14627 ... Read more

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