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Mathematician and polymath John von Neumann could speak eight languages by the age of six, including Ancient Greek and Latin. He could divide eight-digit numbers in his head at the age of six. He was familiar with differential and integral calculus by the age of eight. He entered
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What do you think? ✍️
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Paul Dirac, Yoshikatsu Sugiura, and J. Robert Oppenheimer, in Göttingen, 1927.
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It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they are found because it was possible to find them. - R. Oppenheimer
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R. Oppenheimer lecturing at Kyoto University, Japan, 1960.
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It is easier to denature plutonium than it is to denature the evil spirit of man. -- A. Einstein (1879 - 1955)
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What might the world be like if numbers had never been invented? ✍️.
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Mention a physicist who deserved a Nobel prize but never got one. ✍️.
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Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting. - Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz
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Dartmouth Conference (summer 1956) — first use of the word “artificial intelligence.”. This is widely considered the birth of AI as a formal field. Here, the term “Artificial Intelligence” was coined, and researchers proposed that “every aspect of learning or any other feature of
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Fibonacci (Leonardo Bonacci) never called his sequence “Fibonacci numbers” — that name came centuries later. The sequence appears in Liber Abaci (1202), but the label “Fibonacci sequence” was popularized in the 19th century—Édouard Lucas used the term in 1877.
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The word “algorithm” comes from Al-Khwarizmi, a 9th-century Persian mathematician whose name was Latinized.
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The symbol “=” was invented in 1557 by Robert Recorde, who was tired of writing “is equal to” repeatedly.
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On this day in 1939, J. Robert Oppenheimer, along with his student Hartland Snyder, published the famous paper “On Continued Gravitational Contraction” (in Physical Review, Vol. 56). This work described the theoretical collapse of massive stars into what we now call black
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Ivan Bunin with physicists Erwin Schrödinger, Paul Dirac, and Werner Heisenberg at the Nobel Prize ceremony. Stockholm, October 1933. The physics Nobel was awarded to Paul Dirac and Erwin Schrödinger, and literature to Ivan Bunin that year.
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Enrico Fermi and Ernest Lawrence posing for a photograph. Both Nobel Prize–winning physicists whose work transformed modern science: Fermi pioneered nuclear physics and built the first controlled nuclear reactor, while Lawrence invented the cyclotron, a revolutionary particle
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RT @PhysInHistory: Physicist Werner Heisenberg was known among colleagues as an excellent and fiercely competitive table tennis player. I….
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Am I the only one who still prefers chalkboards over digital screens? ✍️.
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On the left Niels Bohr and in the center Max Planck, standing in front of a chalkboard.✍️
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The whole thing is so much bigger than I am, and I can't understand it, so I just trust myself to it; and forget about it. -- Edwin Hubble, when asked about his beliefs
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