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“Beyond the way they speak, there is only one (no two!) features of American life which I find really tiresome. The impossibility of getting a bath in the ordinary sense and their ideas on room temperature” — Alan Turing ift.tt/R8Hhngr


“One had the impression of a perfect instrument whose gears were machined to mesh accurately to a thousandth of an inch.” — Eugene Wigner ift.tt/IM6oUfX


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“We have a different kind of awareness about what might happen than we have of what probably has happened” - @ProfFeynman ift.tt/ABQ74yR


“The news from Germany are bad: heaven knows what the summer term 1933 will look like.” - John von Neumann ift.tt/XNw3fsV


A Shannon cipher, invented by its namesake Claude Shannon (1916–2001) is a simplified cipher mechanism for encrypting a message using a shared secret key ift.tt/Ptcr8Fd


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On or about the 31st of January 1913, G.H. Hardy at Trinity College received a parcel of papers from Madras, India which included a letter from an aspiring young Indian mathematician by the name of Srinivasa Ramanujan ift.tt/9i6Q24Z


Following the successful defense of his doctoral dissertation, the professor administering the examination, Nobel Laureate James Franck reportedly left the room saying “I’m glad that’s over. He was at the point of questioning me” ift.tt/obJ1eT5


“There is a rumor in America that there are two intelligent races on Earth: Humans and Hungarians” — Isaac Asimov ift.tt/UOkJnCe


"Everybody came in. I got up to give the lecture. I can still remember looking in front of me to see the envelope, and pulling out my notes, and the hand shaking — I can see it, the shaking hand because it was quite a thing.” ift.tt/wIcesQE


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Gödel's demise was fraught with Pyrrhic irony: Unable to escape from the inner logic of his paranoia - to adopt, as it were, a "meta-theoretical perspective" - he succumbed to starvation in the grip of his obsessive fear of being poisoned. ift.tt/NargmVw


This problem has a reputation for being one of the hardest, and perhaps the hardest, International Mathematical Olympiad problem of all time. You can solve it only using high school algebra. ift.tt/lV6e0dX


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