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TIL that James Chadwick wanted to enroll in mathematics at the University of Manchester, but stood in the queue for physics by mistake and was too shy to admit his mistake. Chadwick would win the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1935 for his discovery of t
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TIL that Empire actor Terrence Howard believes that "1 × 1 = 2". He has even created his own mathematical language of logic called "Terrology", to try to prove it. He claims he quit an engineering degree at the Pratt Institute over disagreements with
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TIL two physicists developed a mathematical model for a box that can move backwards and forwards through time and space - and they've named it Traversable Acausal Retrograde Domain in Space-time, or TARDIS. However, the "exotic matter" needed to crea
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TIL that when asked in 1934 “How is mathematics at Göttingen, now that it is free from the Jewish influence?”, David Hilbert replied, “There is no mathematics in Göttingen, anymore”. Göttingen had arguably been the centre of the mathematical world be
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TIL an anonymous poster discovered a partial solution to a mathematical problem that hadn't been solved in over 25 years because they were trying to figure out the shortest way to watch every possible order of the first season of the anime "The Melan
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