He picked the letter K because it struck him as incisive. He cut his fifty-room mansion in half and rolled the back nine feet four inches on jacks so an organ could fit. He designed a thirteen-month calendar. George Eastman, the tidy man of Kodak.

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Review: A Little History of Mathematics, by Snezana Lawrence. Yale: Yale University Press (2025)

"Lawrence’s excitement for mathematics shines through in every chapter. She does not shy away from attempting accessible descriptions of quite advanced mathematical ideas, including the use of algebraic formulae."

Stenhouse, B. (2026) 'Book Forum,' Historia Mathematica, 74, p. 103220. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hm.2026.103220.

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No house. No job. No checkbook. Two half-empty suitcases, 1,500 papers, 511 collaborators, and a 4:30 a.m. greeting of "Let n be an integer." Paul Erdős ran on Benzedrine and bar mitzvahs — the homeless prince of twentieth-century mathematics.

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Eleven passports. Seven languages. A 1,049-piece Napoleon collection, including a lock of the Emperor's hair. In 1918 Moscow, British agent Sidney Reilly hatched a plot to topple the Bolsheviks by humiliation. Ian Fleming insisted Bond wasn't him.

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He turned up in overalls and gumboots, removed his dentures because they rattled, and shuffled off the line. While the professionals slept, he kept going. By morning Cliff Young led a race nobody thought he could enter: the farmer who didn't stop.

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Happy birthday #physicist Chien-shiung Wu (1912-1997), who came up with a truly beautiful experiment to test whether the weak force conserves parity (whether beta decay would be the same if reflected in the mirror)! In my print on the left I show Wu in her lab & a schematic diagram of her experiment. On the right I show her reflection, as in the mirror, & the mirror reflection of 🧵

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He coined the word cell, wrote a law every bridge obeys, surveyed four thousand burned plots after the Great Fire, and invented three experiments a week for forty years. Nobody knows what Robert Hooke looked like. The man without a face.

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