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Related passage from Bell's "Men of Mathematics": It (inversion) is one of the most powerful methods of mathematical discovery (or invention) ever devised,
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Related passage from Bell's "Men of Mathematics":
It (inversion) is one of the most powerful methods of mathematical discovery (or invention) ever devised, and Abel was the first human being to use it consciously as an engine of research. "You must always invert," as Jacobi said when asked the secret of his mathematical discoveries.