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Poet, scientists and warriors all in one? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/180_Degrees_South:_Conquerors_of_the_Useless[Conquerors of the useless].

A wise teacher from <University of São Paulo> once told the class <Ciro Santilli> attended an anecdote about his life:
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I used to want to learn Mathematics.

But it was very hard.

So in the end, I became an engineer, and found an engineering solution to the problem, and married a Mathematician instead.
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It turned out that, about 10 years later, Ciro <Ciro Santilli's wife>[ended up following this advice], unwittingly.

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