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What did you dream of doing when you were 16 years old? I wanted to drive a car and travel the world. But American mathematician Ray Solomonoff had more ambitious goals at that age. He wanted to find ...

Back in the mid-1970s, Avi Wigderson had completed his service in the Israeli army and was preparing to head to Technion–Israel Institute of Technology, where he thought he would study mathematics.

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