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Cumrun Vafa (Harvard University), interview with author, November 2, 2007.

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Leonard Mlodinow, Euclid's Mirror (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002), p. 255.

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Edward Witten (Institute for Advanced Study), e-mail letter to author, February 12, 2007.

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David Morrison (University of California, Santa Barbara), interview with author, May 27, 2008.

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Ravi Vakil (Stanford University), interview with author, May 28, 2008.

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Strominger, interview with author, August 1, 2007.

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Piers Bursill-Hall, “Why Do We Study Geometry? Answers Through the Ages,” lecture, Faulkes Institute for Geometry, University of Cambridge, May 1, 2002.

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Donald Zeyl (University of Rhode Island), interview with author, October 18, 2007.