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The math genius who used amphetamines to work
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The concept of a natural genius is romantic, but sometimes pure stimulants do the heavy lifting. Erdos was a hyper-prolific math legend who routinely consumed massive amounts of amphetamines to fuel his grueling twenty-hour calculation binges. When a friend bet him he could not quit for a month, he succeeded, but angrily complained that mathematical progress had been set back by four weeks.
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