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'''''[[w:Significance|Significance]]''''' (2012) ''by [[Lise Sonntag]]''.
 
[[Significance]] (2012) is a novel by Lise Sonntag. Set in the modern-day city of Leipzig, Germany, it is a thriller which combines historical fact, mathematical puzzles and conspiracy theory into a tale about the search for a murderer and a hidden secret.⏎
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* It occurred to him that for a generation which had grown up in the relative stasis of the Soviet era the speed of development must be unnerving. Where once a local bakery would have been a mainstay of the community, now people were faced with the ever-changing high street – shops and restaurants coming and going, adrift on the tides of supply and demand. Even Baumgarten had noticed a certain generic quality creeping into the selection of bars one could go to as investors settled on the lowest common denom(contracted; show full)
:''From a discussion about the nature of scientific research''

* At times it must have seemed as though he were condemned to being a kind of scholarly performing monkey for the aristocracy; obliged to produce ever more startling and interesting revelations for the entertainment of his masters and to their vicarious glory. (Chapter 16)
:''Referring to the great polymath G.W. Leibniz in his later years''