Can you solve it? Brain-training for Martians
by Alex Bellos from Science | The Guardian on (#6SFGE)
Do you have alien intelligence?
UPDATE: Solutions can be read here
Hungary acquired a reputation for brilliance in maths and physics in the middle of last century, thanks to scientists like John von Neumann, Edward Teller and Eugene Wigner.
The stellar cohort become known as the Martians. The Hungarians, so the joke went, were evidence that superior alien intelligence had already landed on Earth. Even their language was impenetrable.
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