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Dear math students, math enthusiasts and anyone curious... This book is really a pure joy to read. It is a story about a very eccentric Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdös (pronounced air-dish ?). He lived out of a suitcase, apparently, and traveled the world to connect with https://t.co/VPaZ4OFGNt
Look at this guy.
He was known as the "algo arms dealer".
He built some of the most sophisticated algorithms on the market until one day they stopped working.
Discovering Wall Street firms were cheating.
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Louis-Armand de Lom d’Arce,
David Graeber • The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
John Nash was a mathematical genius. He is the only person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics and the Abel Prize.
Here is his recommendation letter for the graduate college at Princeton written in 1948. https://t.co/dpTmpnQ3Gi
Lieutenant-Colonel Jean-Marie Bastien-Thiry waited in the suburb of Meudon. He was married, with three children, and he worked in the Air Ministry. Behind the conventional façade of his professional and family life, he nurtured a deep bitterness towards Charles de Gaulle, who, he believed, had betrayed France and the men who in 1958 had called him
... See moreFrederick Forsyth • The Day of the Jackal
Possible UnitedHealthcare CEO assassin.
Luigi Mangione; https://t.co/yV0g6A2pmH https://t.co/v4YSZu7XU7