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The impetus to republish this once-popular miscellany by an early–20th-century Russian scientist stems from the notoriety of reclusive Russian mathematician Grigori Perelman (no relation), who was awarded, and declined, the Fields Medal for proving the Poincaré conjecture. Grigori claimed he... read more
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In his satirical History of Lunar States and Empires (1657) the witty 17th-century French writer Cyrano de Bergerac describes an amazing thing which had supposedly happened to him.
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