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- From: andrew@rentec.com (Andrew Mullhaupt)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: Fields Medal Winners
- Message-ID: <1452@kepler1.rentec.com>
- Date: 9 Jan 93 17:00:37 GMT
- References: <erwin.726504145@trwacs>
- Organization: Renaissance Technologies Corp., Setauket, NY.
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- In article <erwin.726504145@trwacs> erwin@trwacs.fp.trw.com (Harry Erwin) writes:
- >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.
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- I'm a bit surprised at the idea that the tripos still existed in 1950,
- since Hardy successfully abolished them but did not see 1950. Can
- anyone clear this up?
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- Later,
- Andrew Mullhaupt
-