scientific publications can often be placed in time (i.e. their publication date) from reading the title. The theory of relativity was obviously published at the start of the 20th century; On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres was published long before the scientific revolution; and Computing Machinery and Intelligence (»machinery«?) came out at a time when computers more often than not were still people, not things.

the goal of this bachelor project for one person is to implement a little (smart phone or web based) game where people guess the year in which famous texts were written – maybe taken from sources like this or this – and be assigned a score for how close they got. weekly challenges – this week: number theory – could be announced automatically, resulting in a new score table every week.

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