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Claude Shannon: Mathematician, engineer, genius and juggler (2017)
By Rob Goodman and Jimmy Soni, co-authors A MIND AT PLAY: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age “Do you mind if I hang you upside down by your legs?” From any other professor, this question might have elicited concern. But from Claude Shannon, it was par for the course. Shannon had in mind an elaborate experiment: combining two forms ...
The appointment bore some fine mathematical fruit: Al-Quhi invented an adjustable geometrical compass, likely the world’s first, and led the revival among Muslim geometers of the study of the Greek thinkers Archimedes and Apollonius. Two he singles out for special mention: Lottie Brunn, the “world’s fastest female juggler” and a fixture on the 1920s European theater circuit; and Trixie Firschke, the “first lady of juggling,” a German child star born to a Budapest circus family. And there was one way, he noted with pride, in which they outclassed any human: “The greatest numbers jugglers of all time cannot sustain their record patterns for more than a few minutes, but my little clowns juggle all night and never drop a prop!”
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