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I would like to archive this so that I can go back to it later, however I can't seem to find the original work and scribd is holding it hostage asking for a signup as ransom. Can anybody point me out to the source?

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I would like to archive this so that I can go back to it later, however I can't seem to find the original work and scribd is holding it hostage asking for a signup as ransom.

The original source (Princeton University Press) URL

http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/gowers/gowers_VIII_6.pdf

appears if you mouse over the submission title here. I never read on scribd, which always annoys me with usability issues like that. But, alas, any user of HN who submits a .PDF link will find it automatically styled to also link to scribd.

Is there a userscript or anything for getting rid of the scribd links? I tried to adblock but the markup is too simple to let it identify them.

Why? They're not that large, just click the original title instead. I would understand if you asked for a Google Cache replacement, though (I use a bookmarklet for that).

The link was direct when I tried it. However, to answer your question, it is a chapter from The Princeton Companion to Mathematics. An amazing work covering much of mathematics.

http://www.amazon.com/Princeton-Companion-Mathematics-Timoth...

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