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by Ashutosh JogalekarJohn von Neumann (Image: Life Magazine)During a wartime visit to England in early 1943, John von Neumann wrote a letter to his fellow mathematician Oswald Veblen at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, saying:“I think I have learned a great deal of experimental physics here, particular...

by Mike Bendzela TribesIn the great class of mammalian vertebrates, antagonism arose between the egg-laying monotremes and the marsupials. Neither side could see the other on its own terms, each insisting it was the True Mammal.An opossum (Didelphis) complained, “The platypus is a shameful pretender! It won’t admit ...