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Principia Mathematica by Alfred North Whitehead

Nyssa reads the first volume of Whitehead and Russell’s three-volume work, its hefty navy cloth cover bending slightly under her grip as she avoids engaging with the escalating tension around her. The technical diagrams blur beneath her fingertips as she flips through pages dense with symbolic logic formulae, her previously intense focus on the Zero Cabinet momentarily replaced by studied indifference. Adric’s sarcastic remark about her sudden interest in mathematics contrasts with Tegan’s sharp outbursts, while the Doctor’s prolonged absence hangs heavier in the silence she chooses.
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