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Lise Sonntag
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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''Significance'' 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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:''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''