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[QUOTE="SteamKing, post: 5491473, member: 301881"] While Feynman undoubtedly was very talented mathematically (in fact he taught himself much college level math while still in high school), and his scores on various entrance exams and other tests bore out his talent, he enrolled at MIT as an undergrad physics major and then attended Princeton for graduate work. [URL]http://www.feynman.com/stories/biography/[/URL] [URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Feynman[/URL] Enrico Fermi was another young man who was very talented in math as a student, and he actually began his academic career in Italy as a math major before switching to study physics: [URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrico_Fermi[/URL] Stanislaw Ulam was educated and worked initially as a pure mathematician in Poland before WWII, later coming to America and being employed on the Manhattan Project. His greatest work came after the war was over and the race to build a hydrogen bomb got underway. Ulam is credited, along with Edward Teller, of conceiving of the means whereby a fusion explosion could be created. Now up to this time, Ulam's work had been focused on making calculations to support the design of the atomic bomb and later its thermonuclear brother, but the insights which Ulam provided reportedly involved deep knowledge of the physics, not just the mathematics, of thermonuclear reactions. [URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislaw_Ulam[/URL] [URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislaw_Ulam[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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