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- From: baez@guitar.ucr.edu (john baez)
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- Subject: another math trivia puzzle
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- Date: 14 Dec 92 00:16:04 GMT
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- Which famous mathematician wrote: "I had graduated from the Ecole Normale
- and I did not know what an ideal was, and only just knew what a group was!
- This gives you an idea of what a young French mathematician knew in 1930."
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