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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 'normalcy' was purely a mathematical term describing 'the condition of being at right angles' before US President Warren G Harding incorrectly used it in his 1920 campaign slogan 'Return to Normalcy'. Since then it has become a substitute fo
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TIL A mathematician named Nicolas Bourbaki who has made many strides in mathematics, never even was a real person, but was a collective pseudonym for a group of mathematicians who wrote their own textbooks : todayilearned
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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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