"Since when did a mathematician need any tools but his own head? Pythagoras had done well enough with a stick and a stretch of sand."
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Chapter 4, âBoy meets Girlâ, p. 45
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Robert A. Heinlein
writer, screenwriter, literary critic
1907 â 1988 ¡ United States
Robert Anson Heinlein (7 July 1907 – 8 May 1988) was one of the most popular, influential, and controversial authors of science fiction of the 20th Century.
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