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Which known writer was a mathematician?

Rudyard Kipling

Lewis Carroll

Karol Dickens

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

Lewis Caroll, author of "Alice in Wonderland" completed his mathematical studies at Oxford University, was a lecturer at this University. He wrote about 250 scientific papers in mathematics, logic and cryptography. He was interested in mathematical puzzles and numerical games.

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Phillip K. Dick, author of SF novels that have been made into numerous films ("Blade Runner", "Minority Report", "Paycheck") denied the existence of a certain person. Who was that person?

Albert Einstein

Where was Bertrand Russel from?

Who wrote the novel "Moby Dick"?

Charles Dickens

Herman Melville

What does the Chinese "feng shui" literally mean?

"speech silence"