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• ... that mathematician '''[[Robin Farquharson (nonfiction)|Reginald Robin Farquharson]]''' (3 October 1930 – 1 April 1973) worked on [[Game theory (nonfiction)|game theory]] because he was interested in both mathematics and politics; and that Farquharson's doctoral thesis, which analyzed voting systems, was influential when later published as ''Theory of Voting'' (Oxford: Blackwell, 1970)? | • ... that mathematician '''[[Robin Farquharson (nonfiction)|Reginald Robin Farquharson]]''' (3 October 1930 – 1 April 1973) worked on [[Game theory (nonfiction)|game theory]] because he was interested in both mathematics and politics; and that Farquharson's doctoral thesis, which analyzed voting systems, was influential when later published as ''Theory of Voting'' (Oxford: Blackwell, 1970)? | ||
• ... that physicist and astrophyisicist [[Robert F. Christy (nonfiction)|Robert F. Christy]] was distraught at the outcome of the 1954 [[Oppenheimer security hearing (nonfiction)|Oppenheimer security hearing]]; and that when Christy encountered [[Edward Teller (nonfiction)|Edward Teller]], who had testified against Oppenheimer, at Los Alamos in 1954, Christy publicly refused to shake Teller's hand? | |||
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• ... that mathematician Arthur Cayley (16 August 1821 – 26 January 1895) was the first to define the concept of a group in the modern way (as a set with a binary operation satisfying certain laws); and that formerly, when mathematicians spoke of "groups", they had meant permutation groups?
• ... that mathematician Reginald Robin Farquharson (3 October 1930 – 1 April 1973) worked on game theory because he was interested in both mathematics and politics; and that Farquharson's doctoral thesis, which analyzed voting systems, was influential when later published as Theory of Voting (Oxford: Blackwell, 1970)?
• ... that physicist and astrophyisicist Robert F. Christy was distraught at the outcome of the 1954 Oppenheimer security hearing; and that when Christy encountered Edward Teller, who had testified against Oppenheimer, at Los Alamos in 1954, Christy publicly refused to shake Teller's hand?