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Mind how you go

Many will find this collaboration between a US mathematician and a medical professor a profoundly irritating book. I’m not talking readers; they’ll enjoy it hugely. I mean the circles – now dwindling, in my case – of friends whom those readers just have to tell all about it. Restraint is urged.

begins with Jean-Martin Charcot, who in the 1850s transformed Paris’

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