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I Voyagers i , Neil Burger, AGC Studios/Fibonacci Films/Ingenious Media/Thunder Road Films, 2021 How do you train a crew to travel to another solar system if most of them won't be alive at the end of the 86-year-long trip? Those are among the sentiments conveyed in I Words of Women in Mathematics in the Time of Corona i by German documentary filmmaker Irina Linke. The book was inspired by Tanya's reading of Einstein's famous 1905 paper on special relativity, "On the electrodynamics of moving bodies", which prompted her to envision two trains moving in opposite directions. [Extracted from the article]