Paul Erdős - Wikipedia

Aristarchus of Samos, who lived approximately from 310 to 230 B.C., and was thus about twenty-five years older than Archimedes, is the most interesting of all ancient astronomers, because he advanced the complete Copernican hypothesis, that all the planets, including the earth, revolve in circles round the sun, and that the earth rotates on its axi

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Clustered polymath have certain pockets of knowledge and some examples are Patrick Geddes, Otto Neurath, Donald T Campbell,

For the next four years, he struggled to turn that happy thought into a coherent theory. Simple mathematics couldn’t deal with the audacity of his insight. Specifically, simple mathematics couldn’t handle the accelerating reference frames that he imagined.

In 1912, he took a professorship in theoretical physics at ETH Zurich, where he reconnected wi

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Trois heures, quatre heures durant, Balzac travaille à ses épreuves, retouche, améliore. Cette « cuisine littéraire », comme il dit plaisamment, remplit chaque fois toute la matinée et s’exécute sans trêve ni repos, avec le même acharnement, la même passion que le travail de la nuit. C’est seulement à midi que Balzac écarte le tas de feuilles pour

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