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Possibly the most remarkable consequence of Winterbotham’s revelations was that Rejewski realized the staggering consequences of his prewar breakthroughs against Enigma. After the invasion of Poland, Rejewski had escaped to France, and when France was overrun he fled to Britain. It would seem natural that he should have become part of the British E

Unlike them, however, our brain does not require so much experience. Quite the contrary, the main nodes of our brain, the modules where our core knowledge is stored, seem to develop largely spontaneously, perhaps purely through internal simulation.

males called more different individuals than women did up to the age of thirty-five, after which the ratio reversed.

that we had found in face-to-face and digital world social networks, with very similar circle sizes and essentially the same scaling ratio.

One of them is Emmanuel Giroux, who has been blind since the age of eleven but became a top-notch mathematician. Paraphrasing the fox in Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince (1943), Giroux confidently states: “In geometry, what is essential is invisible to the eye. It is only with the mind that you can see well.”