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Old 17-04-2011, 01:40 PM
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Originally Posted by renormalised View Post
Isn't it funny how brilliance in certain fields runs in families....Ed's being no exception. I can't remember their name, but there's a Hungarian family who have been brilliant mathematicians for well over 300 years. They're also brilliant at physics as well.
You might be referring to the Bernoulli family who were Swiss.
Two of them engaged in an on going battle with Newton.

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