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Princeton mathematician Sergiu Klainerman, who grew up under Communist Romania's repressive regime, found in mathematics a truth no government could control. Over 50 years, he proved that empty space and black holes are stable — and argues mathematical truths like these were discovered, not invented by humans.
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