little grey mouse, doctor of pan-rodentia studies.

for 30 years Enrico Betti ran the Scuola Normale of Pisa, a small high quality institute, where most of Italy's mathematicans were trained. the Italians started to make a strong contributions to math at the same time as their unification, 1860-1870.

the movie you've been waiting your whole life to see. the master spy meets his equal in a deadly duel of wits and grit. teeny mouse stars in his greatest thriller ever! MOUSE vs MOUSE are you for the white hat or the black hat?

NOBODY MOVE! I WARN YOU, I'LL SQUIRT! DON'T THINK I WON'T. NOW HERE'S A LIST OF MY DEMANDS... 1/49

i reckon when this guy fails, the russians will find an even bigger retired general.

Stan Ulam got the idea of the Monte Carlo method while in a hospital playing solitaire. Neumann liked the idea and wrote an 11-page plan, use it to simulate atomic bomb explosions. the development of the program took a large team, all working under top secret.

René Thom, French topologist, got a Fields Prize in 1958 and had collected practically every math award there is, when in 1976 an article in Scientific American popularized 'catastrophe theory', and Thom become sorta famous.

Emanuel Lasker, World Chess Champion for 27 years, played outside the box, eschewing standard lines of play, using unusual & apparently "weak" moves that confused opponents. left, with brother Berthold 1907.

the most powerful and inconsistent axiom in the large cardinal hierarchy is "0=1", a contradiction, under which any statement is both true and false. going down the hierarchy, axioms become less powerful and more consistent.