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What I learned locked inside an escape room with one of the world’s most brilliant mathematicians
Jacob Tsimerman was awarded a Fields Medal—the Nobel of math. He‘s also handy with the occasional dragon’s egg
When Jacob Tsimerman was a child, his grandfather, a Russian physicist, gave him a riddle about a broken toaster. “Suppose you have three slices of bread,” his grandpa proposed, “and a toaster with two slots that toast on only one side. How many times do you need to use it to fully toast all three slices of bread?”
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