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- From: jmc@SAIL.Stanford.EDU (John McCarthy)
- Subject: Re: Why no Nobel Prize in Math?
- In-Reply-To: hausner@qucis.queensu.ca's message of Thu, 31 Dec 1992 05:32:04 GMT
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- Date: 30 Dec 92 22:27:41
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- In article <C03zDG.JM2@knot.ccs.queensu.ca> hausner@qucis.queensu.ca (Alejo Hausner) writes:
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- From: hausner@qucis.queensu.ca (Alejo Hausner)
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- 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.
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- My question is, what was the mathematician's name? I vaguely
- remember it being a multiple name.
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- Alejo Hausner (hausner@qucis.queensu.ca)
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- It was supposed to have been Gustav Mittag-Leffler. However, the
- _Britannica_ article on Nobel says "He never married".
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- John McCarthy, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA 94305
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- He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
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