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- From: jbaez@riesz.mit.edu (John C. Baez)
- Subject: Re: another math trivia puzzle - SPOILER
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- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 18:41:50 GMT
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- In article <24372@galaxy.ucr.edu> baez@guitar.ucr.edu (john baez) writes:
- >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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- Two folks have gotten it so far so I might as well give it away:
- Dieudonne. I ran into this quote in an interesting description of the
- impact of Emmy Noether's work in a recent issue of L'Enseignement
- Mathematique (sorry, forget which).
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