The Ambassadors[?] by Henry James is published. In 2001, the book would be one of three books by James to be on the list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century as selected by the editorial board of the American Modern Library.
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The symbol
<math>\pm \sqrt {b^2-4ac}</math>
in the formula should be understood as "either of those element(s) of the field whose square equals b2 ...