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The Russell’s paradox, discovered by Bertrand Russell in 1901. Public Domain

Hugo is a chemical engineer doing a PhD in Mathematics at University College London. He is currently working on non-Newtonian fluid dynamics. He is also interested in transport phenomena and rheology (the science of deformation).

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