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Beauty as fit: a metaphor in mathematics?

Manya Raman Department of Science and Mathematics Education, Umeå University, SwedenCorrespondence[email protected]
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Lars-Daniel Öhman Department of Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, Umeå University, Sweden
Pages 199-200 | Published online: 14 Jun 2013

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