A Twenty-Year Math Proof Helped Build the Atomic Bomb
20th Century

A Twenty-Year Math Proof Helped Build the Atomic Bomb

A brilliant mathematician spent twenty years solving the world's hardest puzzle, then discovered his answer would help build the atomic bomb.

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