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• ... that Lieutenant Colonel '''[[Stanislav Petrov (nonfiction)|Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov]]''' (1939–2017) of the Soviet Air Defense Forces who became known as "the man who single-handedly saved the world from nuclear war" for his role in the 1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident?
• ... that polymath '''[[Omar Khayyam (nonfiction)|Omar Khayyam]]''' was the first mathematician to systematically classify and solve cubic equations using the intersection of conic sections (e.g., a parabola and a circle), providing a general geometric method for all types of third-degree polynomials;  and that this advanced beyond earlier work (like that of al-Khwarizmi on quadratics) and anticipated later developments in analytic geometry?
 
• ... that philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic and political activist '''[[Bertrand Russell (nonfiction)|Bertrand Russell]]''' was also a boxing champion?
 
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• ... that polymath Omar Khayyam was the first mathematician to systematically classify and solve cubic equations using the intersection of conic sections (e.g., a parabola and a circle), providing a general geometric method for all types of third-degree polynomials; and that this advanced beyond earlier work (like that of al-Khwarizmi on quadratics) and anticipated later developments in analytic geometry?

• ... that philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic and political activist Bertrand Russell was also a boxing champion?

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