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- From: wjh@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (william.j.hery)
- Subject: Re: Why no Nobel Prize in Math?
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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 14:57:32 GMT
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- hausner@qucis.queensu.ca (Alejo Hausner) writes:
- > 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.
-
- ?????? Is that because you think that all mahtematicians are 1) asexual,
- 2) homosexual, 3) perfect moral speicmens according to some moral
- code that you recognize, 4) prudes, or 5) just don't have the time
- because they spend so much time doing mathematics?????
-
- Bill Hery
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