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More than 100 years ago Hungarian-born mathematician George Pólya found himself trapped in a loop of social awkwardness. A professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, he enjoyed ...

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On a snowy night in 1961, Bennett Cerf, one of the founders of the publisher Random House, excused himself from a dinner party to watch his favorite television show. His hosts, the writer Robert Penn ...

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