I remember reading this article when I was in high school.
It is about the Chudnovsky brothers who invented a supercomputer in order to calculate Pi.
This is interesting because it comes from a time when the New Yorker used to do eighteen page profiles on interesting people who weren't necessarily in the limelight and because it is about something that shows a single minded devotion to a subject matter that is unrepentently geeky. They (the brothers) even went so far as writing their own algorithm in order to calculate Pi.
How awesome is that?
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