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- Path: sparky!uunet!math.fu-berlin.de!guckes
- From: guckes@math.fu-berlin.de (Sven Guckes)
- Subject: Re: mathematician's marrying ages.
- Message-ID: <55Z55ZP@math.fu-berlin.de>
- Originator: guckes@medusa
- Sender: news@math.fu-berlin.de (Math Department)
- Organization: Free University of Berlin, Germany
- References: <hubert.713379330@spica>
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 00:03:29 GMT
- Lines: 17
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- hubert@spica.ucsb.edu
- (Chang;Hung-Hsien;H.;;;COMS;Graduate;930630;;;8-402525-19906-7;500)
- [what's in a name ?]
- writes:
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- >My friend (yu@math.harvard.edu) keep advocating that marrying
- >early is good for mathematician. He gave several examples
- >( most of them are number theorist, according to his statemnet)
- >Examples he gave are Delinge, Gauss, Milnor, Serre, Zariski.
- >He told me that he got these information from bibliography
- >(maybe from introduction to authors...etc)
-
- If he uses four examples to prove his statement - tell him to quit math!
-
- >Any counterexample? ( Marry late and have quite an achievement )
-
- Galois and Abel never married. So there.
-