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A Mathematician Said Who Can Quote Me a Theorem that’s True? For the ones that I Know Are Simply not So, When the Characteristic is Two! This pretty limerick first came to my ears in May 1998 during a talk by T.Y. Lam 1 on field invariants from the theory of quadratic forms. It is—poetic exaggeration allowed—a suitable motto for this monograph. What is it about? At the beginning of the seventies I drew up a specialization theory of quadratic and symmetric bilinear formsover fields[32].