
Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
gregeganSF@mathstodon.xyz ("Greg Egan") wrote:
“For three weeks in May, the fate of the world rested on the shoulders of a corporate recruiter on the outskirts of Toronto. Allan Brooks, 47, had discovered a novel mathematical formula, one that could take down the internet and power inventions like a force-field vest and a levitation beam.
Or so he believed.”