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- From: hausner@qucis.queensu.ca (Alejo Hausner)
- Subject: Why no Nobel Prize in Math?
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- Organization: M.Sc, C.S, Queen's, Kingston, Canada.
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 05:32:04 GMT
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- One of my mathematics professors once told me that the reason
- there are Nobel prizes in mathematics, even though there are
- prizes in physics, chemistry, etc, is that a mathematician had a
- love affair with Alfred Nobel's wife. He swore the story was
- true. It seemed unlikely to me at the time that a mathematician
- would have a love life, much less an adulterous one, but I've
- since realized they're human too.
-
- My question is, what was the mathematician's name? I vaguely
- remember it being a multiple name.
-
- Alejo Hausner (hausner@qucis.queensu.ca)
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