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- From: hubert@mike.ucsb.edu (Hung-Hsien Chang)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: Names and pictures
- Message-ID: <hubert.724997920@mike>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 04:18:40 GMT
- References: <7126@ucsbcsl.ucsb.edu> <PRENER.92Dec13234741@prener.watson.ibm.com>
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- prener@watson.ibm.com (Dan Prener) writes:
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- >In article <7126@ucsbcsl.ucsb.edu> hubert@ucsb.edu (Hung-Hsien Chang) writes:
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- >> I think it would be nice if the mathematical papers published on
- >> journals contain the pictures of the authors as well. So people
- >> will know the authors not just by name.
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- >Why would that be good? It seems to me that the predominant effect would
- >be to provide an opportunity for invidiousness.
- >--
- > Dan Prener (prener@watson.ibm.com)
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- Sometimes it would be admiration and respect. Also it is much more friendly
- ( if the author's picture is not angry-looking. ) when name is associated
- with faces.
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