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- From: len@schur.math.nwu.edu (Len Evens)
- Subject: Re: Why no Nobel Prize in Math?
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- Organization: Dept of Math, Northwestern Univ
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- In article <C05619.8zy@knot.ccs.queensu.ca> hausner@qucis.queensu.ca (Alejo Hausner) writes:
- >
- >I should have put smileys on it. Math is such an abstract,
- >seemingly incorporeal subject that it doesn't seem such a strange
- >conclusion for a young mind such as mine to make.
- >
- >So I guess at the time I would have chosen 1) asexual.
- >
- >No flames please.
- >
- >Alejo (hausner@qucis.queensu.ca)
- >
-
- I remember thinking at one time that mathematicians were less likely
- to engage in adultery than mere mortals. My theory was that the TRUTH
- is of such great importance in doing mathematics that mathematicians
- would find it difficult to engage in practices requiring deception.
- Alas, there are too many counter-examples to this theory for one
- to take it seriously.
-
- Leonard Evens len@math.nwu.edu 708-491-5537
- Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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