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A Mathematician Who Fled to Freedom but Still Stares Down Doubts
It was difficult to hide it from all my classmates. I have no friends from my college years that didn’t come from my husband’s side, because I always had this pretty big secret. I couldn’t confide in anyone. You ended up studying problems in mathematical physics and dynamical systems. What drew you to those areas?
A Mathematician Answers a 150-Year-Old Chess Problem
If you have a few chess sets at home, try the following exercise: Arrange eight queens on a board so that none of them are attacking each other. If you succeed once, can you find a second arrangement? A third? How many are there?This challenge is over 150 years old. It is the earliest version…