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- From: rivin@SAIL.Stanford.EDU (Igor Rivin)
- Subject: Re: Why no Nobel Prize in Math?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.225539.26574@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU>
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- Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
- References: <1992Dec31.145732.19319@cbnewsl.cb.att.com> <1993Jan1.185409.13755@zia.aoc.nrao.edu> <C06xJo.Grn@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
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- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 22:55:39 GMT
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- In article <C06xJo.Grn@news.cso.uiuc.edu> levine@symcom.math.uiuc.edu (Lenore Levine) writes:
- >dbriggs@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Daniel Briggs) writes:
- >[...]
- >
- >>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?
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- Perhaps it just means that mathematicians are too cheap (especially
- with the math book prices being what they are, and all...)
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