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- From: deghare@daisy.uwaterloo.ca (Dave Hare)
- Subject: Re: Why no Nobel Prize in Math?
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- Organization: University of Waterloo
- References: <C03zDG.JM2@knot.ccs.queensu.ca> <1992Dec31.145732.19319@cbnewsl.cb.att.com>
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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 16:03:56 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec31.145732.19319@cbnewsl.cb.att.com> wjh@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (william.j.hery) writes:
- >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
-
- Jean Bourgain, who is one of the best functional analysts of our time, has
- been quoted as saying that "One can either do mathematics or get married,
- but not both".
-
- One wonders how his mathematics has been affected by his subsequent
- marriage :-)
-
- Dave Hare
-