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But Imyaslav mathematicians in Russia believed that by naming a mathematical object it automatically comes into existence, and so they were fully open to German advances in the set theory. They had no conceptual problem with, say, proving the existence of an object that cannot be properly defined. Their open mind allowed Egorov and Luzin to found a new school of mathematics.

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