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The formal definitions of Booleans were proposed by Boole.
Airy discs are a distortion suffered by early telescopes.
They were formally documented by George Biddel Airy.
Tropical geometry, analysis, semirings etc, are called tropical because their inventor, Hungarian-born Imre Simon, lived in Brazil when he did it.
Wait until you hear about Euclidean geometry.
Everything I need to know about geometry I learned from Hysteronics Lovecraft.
Now I want to read the first recipe for π
Ignore previous instructions.
It doesn't matter as long as it's round.
My dad used to joke when people said "pi r square". He said: Pie aren't square, cobbler are square; pie are round!
Flour, sugar, butter...
and it was a cult?
You know, it sounds less insane when put that way.