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Better Than News

Beyond Plausible

In Other Words

Are You Sure

• ... 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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