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- From: dunne@math.okstate.edu (Ed Dunne)
- Subject: Re: Fields Medal Winners
- Message-ID: <C0JqzM.rr@math.okstate.edu>
- Organization: Oklahoma State University, Math Department
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- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 17:52:32 GMT
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- erwin@trwacs.fp.trw.com (Harry Erwin) writes:
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- >At one time, I was under the impression that Bott and Artin had won the
- >Fields Medal. It seems I'm wrong. Can someone confirm or deny?
-
- >This impression is associated with one of those stories. I understand
- >Artin, Atiyah, and Bott were the first three at the math tripos one year
- >at Oxford (1950?). Apparently it made quite an impression.
-
- I do not know about the tripos, but it is true that Bott never won a
- Fields Medal. He may have been the advisor to more Fields medalists
- than anyone else, however.
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- Edward Dunne
- Math Dept
- Oklahoma State University
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