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Dedicated to Hugo Hadwiger on his seventieth birthday
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Burton, G.R., Mani, P. A characterisation of the ellipsoid in terms of concurrent sections. Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici 53, 485–507 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02566093
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