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Renaissance Maths Duels went hard
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I wonder how much info was just straight up lost this way.
Not math duels but the reason MIT and many Ivy leagues instituted a swim test for graduation is because of alumni drowning incidents.
Separately, a lot of UK mathematicians died in WWI Henry Moseley most famously at Gallipoli 1915. But many also died figuring out various airplane instruments and improvements. Then there are various scientists killed by the church. The guy who invented group theory died in a duel at 20, etc.