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Frank Wilczek on the Strong Force, Quarks and Dark Matter

The Joy of x

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Was Your Dad a Logician?

I was reading Bertrand Russell a lot. We used to go to a bookstore where they had the big selection of Dover books. And there were a couple of books on, on mathematical logic that really caught my fans. So I, yeah, I, I was pretty precocious. But he didn't like that. No, he felt very self-conscious about this, you know, this kid. Yeah. Skipping grades was not terribly rare. To skip several grades was fairly rare to skip an into any individual grade. There was a regular process.

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