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My problem is not with this sentence, but with this passage from the second paragraph:

> ... number theory is the study of numbers [...]

> Geometry, on the other hand, studies shapes [...]

> But French mathematician André Weil had a penetrating

> insight that the two subjects are in fact closely related.

This pretty clearly says Weil came up with the idea of connecting number theory and geometry - or at least connecting them closely - which is very, very wrong.



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