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Terence Tao regarded Equational Theories as a pilot for a fundamentally new approach to mathematics and judged it an unqualified success as such.
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“Tao viewed Equational Theories as a pilot project for a fundamentally new way of doing mathematics, and in that regard, it was an unqualified success.”59:58Report a misattribution
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