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- From: yeomans@austin.onu.edu (Charles Yeomans)
- Subject: Re: Why no Nobel Prize in Math?
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- In article <C06xJo.Grn@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, levine@symcom.math.uiuc.edu (Lenore Levine) writes:
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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?
- >
- >
- Or perhaps it means that mathematicians are cheap.
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