Geoffrey Hinton's family tree: Boole, Everest, tesseract, Manhattan Project — and a Nobel
sahilypatel · x · 2026-11-13
Geoffrey Hinton's lineage is absurd: great-great-grandfather George Boole invented boolean algebra; great-great-great-granduncle George Everest lent his name to Mount Everest (Hinton's middle name); great-grandfather Charles Howard Hinton coined "tesseract"; great-uncle Sebastian Hinton invented the jungle gym; a cousin worked on the Manhattan Project with Fermi; and Hinton himself won the Nobel Prize in Physics for AI.
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