They walked for three days, not counting the time spent resting.

In 1984 they sent their recorkers and special equipment to the East Coast where they replaced corks in hundreds of bottles of Lafites. This year they journey to Houston, Dallas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Chicago.

While applying his willful kind of calculus to Newton's binomial series, Euler not only constructed the exponential function, but found out that its inverse had already been in the minds of the 17th century and thus detected the very nature of logarithms.

His opponent danced and dodged so nimbly that he couldn’t strike a blow.