A story about Jacob Appel, a Nobel Laureate, who is also acknowledged by nearly everyone as the "world’s greatest living mathematician”. He creates a mathematical proof that it was possible, in pure maths at least, to send non-living objects back in time. And to prove this, he sends back a paper from 2005 to 1926.
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A mathematician who is up for tenure collaborates with his professor-emeritus father in unusual ways, to prove a hypothesis...