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- From: torkel@sics.se (Torkel Franzen)
- Subject: Re: Why no Nobel Prize in Math?
- In-Reply-To: mwmv@athena.cas.vanderbilt.edu's message of 1 Jan 93 20:18:15 GMT
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- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 23:14:01 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan1.201815.18409@news.vanderbilt.edu> mwmv@athena.cas.
- vanderbilt.edu (Michael Mogensen-Vermillion) writes:
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- >*Economics* is a _pratical_ science ?!?!! Now I'm insulted.
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- Nobel had nothing to do with the prize in economics. It's not officially
- a Nobel prize anyway. When it was instituted (by the national bank)
- it was dubbed "the prize in economics in memory of Alfred Nobel".
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