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I spend my vacation time reading trashy sci-fi novels. I guess that’s why I’m not prime minister of anything.

PM Lee spending some vacation time on the Collatz conjecture: 5 things about the unsolved maths...

Did you know the Collatz conjecture comes with a warning, because it is so treacherously alluring? Read more at straitstimes.com.

1:56 PM · Apr 16, 2022Twitter Web App

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(For those unfamiliar with Lee Hsien Loong’s history, dude was senior wrangler at Cambridge and gave up his dream of being a mathematician to become a politician instead.)

Cedric Chin

@ejames_c

Apr 16

Anyway this has become a topic of interest again because it’s finally become clear who the next prime minister of Singapore is going to be. And so the speculation on what LHL is going to do in retirement has started. “You think he’s going to pick up Haskell?”