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Consider Kolmogorov’s entire Foundations of the Theory of Probability is 71 pages long [1].

[1] https://archive.org/details/foundationsofthe00kolm


... and that he revolutionised the understanding of turbulence in [1] which is four pages long.

[1] The local structure of turbulence in incompressible viscous fluids at very large Reynolds numbers, Dokl. Akad. Nauk. SSSR 30, 299-303. Reprinted in Proc. R. Soc. London A434, 9-13 (1991).




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