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Since 1928, the Institut Henri Poincaré in Paris has been home to more than 600 mathematical models. Designed in the late 19th century for teaching purposes, they also inspired the Surrealists. Now digitised, the collection, one of the world’s largest, is partly on exhibit at the Institute’s Maison Poincaré museum.
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