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A BEAUTIFUL MATH

Shortly after 9/11, a Russian scientist named Dmitri Gusev proposed
an explanation for the origin of the name Al Qaeda. He
suggested that the terrorist organization took its name from Isaac
Asimov’s famous 1950s science fiction novels known as the Foundation
Trilogy. After all, he reasoned, the Arabic word “qaeda”
means something like “base” or “foundation.” And the first novel in
Asimov’s trilogy, Foundation, apparently was titled “al-Qaida” in an
Arabic translation.

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