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- From: dunne@math.okstate.edu (Ed Dunne)
- Subject: Re: Why no Nobel Prize in Math?
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- Organization: Oklahoma State University, Math Department
- References: <C03zDG.JM2@knot.ccs.queensu.ca> <1992Dec31.145732.19319@cbnewsl.cb.att.com> <1993Jan1.185409.13755@zia.aoc.nrao.edu> <C06xJo.Grn@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1993Jan5.161440.19492@austin.onu.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 17:27:59 GMT
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- yeomans@austin.onu.edu (Charles Yeomans) writes:
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- >In article <C06xJo.Grn@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, levine@symcom.math.uiuc.edu (Lenore Levine) writes:
- >>
- >> >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.
-
- There is a joke that I only remember the outline of:
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- A physician, a lawyer and a mathematician are all asked for their
- preferences: a lover or a spouse. The physician answers (something
- like) a spouse - you don't have to worry about your mate bringing
- home STDs. The lawyer says a lover - you don't have to worry about
- a nasty divorce. The mathematician says, `Both. When the lover
- thinks you are with the spouse and the spouse thinks you are with the
- lover, you can get some mathematics done.'
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