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A way into a field for someone who does not work in it.
What these pages are, and what they are not.
Each page takes the papers this archive draws on in one field and puts them in the order they were written, with a plain-language note on each. The order is the date and nothing else: ranking research is not something this site has any standing to do, and for a learner the field's own sequence is the better answer anyway, because each paper is usually answering something the one before it left open. These are not surveys and they are not complete — they are the papers that happen to be here, which is a handful, chosen because somebody on this site is on record about them.