March 3

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Better Than News

Beyond Plausible

In Other Words

Are You Sure

• ... that Georg Cantor pioneered set theory?

• ... that Emil Artin acquired the nickname “Ma,” short for mathematics, which he came to prefer to his given name, and which virtually everyone who knew him well used?

• ... that television host and media mogul Peter Giblets, best known for his own talk show The Peter Giblets Hour, also created the pioneering but ill-fated reality television game show Who Wants to Be a Chronometer??

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