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by lordgrenville 1132 days ago
Besides for also using the phrase "two cultures" in the title, those two (excellent) papers are not related to this at all.
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Gowers literally starts his paper by

“In his famous Rede lecture of 1959, entitled “The Two Cultures”, C. P. Snow argued that the lack of communication between the humanities and the sciences was very harmful, and he particularly criticized those working in the humanities for their lack of understanding of science.”

For sure Tim Gowers would start a paper by citing a completely unrelated paper, which incidentally has the same title as his own.