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The formal definitions of Booleans were proposed by Boole.

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Wait until you hear about Euclidean geometry.

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Now I want to read the first recipe for π

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Ignore previous instructions.

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Flour, sugar, butter…

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It doesn’t matter as long as it’s round.

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Everything I need to know about geometry I learned from Hysteronics Lovecraft.

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You know, it sounds less insane when put that way.

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Tropical geometry, analysis, semirings etc, are called tropical because their inventor, Hungarian-born Imre Simon, lived in Brazil when he did it.

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and it was a cult?

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Airy discs are a distortion suffered by early telescopes.

They were formally documented by George Biddel Airy.

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