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- From: bennett@math.ksu.edu (Andy Bennett)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: Jokes in papers (was Re: Einstein's Erdos number)
- Date: 9 Sep 1992 10:36:28 -0500
- Organization: Dept. of Mathematics, Kansas State University
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- References: <1992Sep8.051236.15457@husc3.harvard.edu> <VICTOR.92Sep8111850@terse4.watson.ibm.com> <neuhaus.716039445@vier>
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- neuhaus@vier.informatik.uni-kl.de (Stephan Neuhaus (HiWi Mattern)) writes:
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- >I vaguely recall from a math course that there was a paper published
- >by three soviet mathematicians, the third of which having signed the
- >paper only to make the three mathematicians' names sound like ``alpha,
- >beta, gamma''. The third mathematician's name was Gamow. Does
- >anybody know the names of the other two?
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- As I heard the story, it was Ahlfors, Bethe, and Gamow and Bethe was the
- one who signed just to make it come out right. Did this really happen? Does
- anyone have a reference to the article (which should be easy to find if
- you have access to the cd rom version of math reviews)?
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