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Banach (mathematician) also drank heavily.

I hear he once drank himself to pieces, and when he woke up in the morning and pulled himself together, he had inadvertently made a copy of himself.

The Banach-Tarski paradox:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banach%E2%80%93Tarski_paradox

Quickly, you must tell me: What vile monster cut him up into 5 pieces while he was unconscious? The mathematical community needs to know, for their own safety.

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