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A few words at a happy event
Thank you, Mme. Chancellor. Thank You, Mr. President, and Thank you, University of Victoria, for this tremendous honour. I obviously have many connections to UVic, but I should start by mentioning a very special one.
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Tagged Alan Turing, Alex McCauley, Ed Perkins, Emmy Noether, G.H. Hardy, Honorary Doctor of Science, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, John Nash, Martin Taylor, Ramanujan, Reinhard Illner, Sophie Germain, The University of Victoria
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