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- From: levine@symcom.math.uiuc.edu (Lenore Levine)
- Subject: Re: Why no Nobel Prize in Math?
- References: <C03zDG.JM2@knot.ccs.queensu.ca> <1992Dec31.145732.19319@cbnewsl.cb.att.com> <1993Jan1.185409.13755@zia.aoc.nrao.edu>
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- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 19:45:22 GMT
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- dbriggs@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Daniel Briggs) writes:
-
- >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?????
-
- >Well, I can add a mildly amusing bit of annecdotal evidence which suggests
- >that there might be a grain of truth to the above. (Take the implications
- >with a few smileys, but the story *is* true, albeit more than a decade
- >old.)
-
- >A friend of the household, before I moved in, was active with COYOTE in the
- >SF Bay Area. I can't remember the acronym expansion, but it is (was?) an
- >organization to promote legalized prostitution. Among other things, COYOTE
- >kept summary statistics of the sales activities of all their members, as
- >ammunition for their lobbying battles. There was always a big correlation
- >between sales and a major convention in San Francisco. Until the AMS had
- >a major meeting there, that is. COYOTE had its worst weekly sales ever!
-
- Does that really mean that male mathematicians are less sexual? Or
- merely less interested in women who have no sincere romantic interest in
- them?
-