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• ... that | • ... that the '''[[Nth Country Experiment (nonfiction)|Nth Country Experiment]]''' was an experiment conducted from 1964 to 1967 by three young physicists with no prior weapons experience to develop a working nuclear weapon design using only unclassified information with basic computational and technical support; and that, according to a heavily redacted declassified version of the summary, it was apparently judged by lab weapons experts that the team had come up with a credible design for the technically more challenging implosion style nuclear weapon; and that it is likely that the team would have been able to design a simpler gun combination weapon even more quickly, though in such a case the limiting factor in developing such a weapon is not usually design difficulty but rather the procurement of enriched uranium? | ||
• ... that mathematician '''[[Oscar Chisini (nonfiction)|Oscar Chisini]]''' posed | • ... that historian of mathematics '''[[Moritz Cantor (nonfiction)|Moritz Cantor]]''' (23 August 1829 – 10 April 1920) brought critical methods from other fields of history into the history of mathematics? | ||
• ... that mathematician '''[[Oscar Chisini (nonfiction)|Oscar Chisini]]''' (14 March 1889 – 10 April 1967) posed the Chisini conjecture, a uniqueness question for morphisms of generic smooth projective surfaces, branched on a cuspidal curve; and that a special case of the conjecture is the question of the uniqueness of the covering of the projective plane, branched over a generic curve of degree at least five? | |||
• ... that physicist and academic [[Giovanni Aldini (nonfiction)|Giovanni Aldini]] (10 April 1762 – 17 January 1834) contributed to galvanism, anatomy and its medical applications, the construction and illumination of lighthouses, and the mitigation of the destructive effects of fire? | |||
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• ... that the Nth Country Experiment was an experiment conducted from 1964 to 1967 by three young physicists with no prior weapons experience to develop a working nuclear weapon design using only unclassified information with basic computational and technical support; and that, according to a heavily redacted declassified version of the summary, it was apparently judged by lab weapons experts that the team had come up with a credible design for the technically more challenging implosion style nuclear weapon; and that it is likely that the team would have been able to design a simpler gun combination weapon even more quickly, though in such a case the limiting factor in developing such a weapon is not usually design difficulty but rather the procurement of enriched uranium?
• ... that historian of mathematics Moritz Cantor (23 August 1829 – 10 April 1920) brought critical methods from other fields of history into the history of mathematics?
• ... that mathematician Oscar Chisini (14 March 1889 – 10 April 1967) posed the Chisini conjecture, a uniqueness question for morphisms of generic smooth projective surfaces, branched on a cuspidal curve; and that a special case of the conjecture is the question of the uniqueness of the covering of the projective plane, branched over a generic curve of degree at least five?
• ... that physicist and academic Giovanni Aldini (10 April 1762 – 17 January 1834) contributed to galvanism, anatomy and its medical applications, the construction and illumination of lighthouses, and the mitigation of the destructive effects of fire?