Mathematics: A Solipsistic Fairy Tale
An editor corrects a mathematician's 'history' of mathematics to a 'solipsistic fairy tale.'
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[Book] "MATHEMATICS: A HISTORY, by a mathematician" → an editor crosses out HISTORY and writes "solipsistic fairy tale."