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Alexandre Eremenko
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It is indeed somewhat subjective. A discussion of this, with examples, is contained in Hardy's book Mathematician's Apology. But mathematicians frequently disagree on many questions whether they are important or not. For example, Vladimir Arnold disagrees with Hardy in many cases. And Jacobi disagreed with Fourier, in their famous exchange.

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