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Motivating several of Gauss's suggestions for prize problems in the years 1830, 1834

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Did Kolmogorov complexity influence the development of communication complexity?

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Did Turing invent the imitation game? Did he name it?

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Is it true that Albert Einstein was kicked out of high school due to his "peacefulness"?

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What was different about Planck's quantization of light compared to Einstein's?

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On Bryce Seligman DeWitt's Name Change

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Biographical info on Alan Earnshaw (Chemistry of the Elements)

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Has Penrose ever acknowledged criticism of the Penrose-Lucas argument?

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Biographical details on Otto Zoll

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Inscriptions on Newton's tomb

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What attracted Einstein to the anomalous precession of Mercury?

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