User:Deyyaz/Academia portal trial/Did you know/1

• ... that Robert Phelps is a "grandfather" of modern variational principles, according to Ivar Ekeland?

• ... that Reform Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch, who led the struggle against Israel's Orthodox establishment to recognize the Reform movement, co-authored a book with an Orthodox rabbi?

• ... that in the early 19th century, the word gullible wasn't in the dictionary?

• ... that the story of Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan, the topic of Sandeep Bhagwati's opera for the 1998 Munich Biennale, was considered fit for a film?

• ... that 1986 Nobel Prize winner John Polanyi spent three years in Canada as a child to avoid German bombings during World War II?