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Axiomatization is what one does last, it's rubbish. It's the hygiene of mathematics, axiomatization.

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Serge Lang
Age: 78 †
Born: 1927
Born: May 10
Died: 2005
Died: September 12
Mathematician
St. Germain-en-Laye
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