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Duel at Dawn: math can do that to you

Posted on July 24, 2010July 24, 2010

In Hungary, winters can be long (so I’m assuming). Before television, intelligent Hungarians tried many different pastimes to make it through those dark days. One of these, János Bolyai, resorted to non-Euclidean geometry. Bolyai wasn’t warning his son off gambling, or poetry, or a poorly chosen love affair. He was trying to keep him away from … Continue reading Duel at Dawn: math can do that to you

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