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- From: kim_sh@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Sung Hyun Kim)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: Jokes in papers (was Re: Einstein's Erdos number)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep9.154705.21475@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu>
- Date: 9 Sep 92 15:47:05 GMT
- References: <VICTOR.92Sep8111850@terse4.watson.ibm.com> <neuhaus.716039445@vier> <18l5lsINN176@hilbert.math.ksu.edu>
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- In article <18l5lsINN176@hilbert.math.ksu.edu> bennett@math.ksu.edu (Andy Bennett) writes:
- >neuhaus@vier.informatik.uni-kl.de (Stephan Neuhaus (HiWi Mattern)) writes:
- >
- >>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?
- >
- >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)?
- >
- >
- >--
- >Andrew G. Bennett bennett@math.ksu.edu If you count too
-
- I remember reading this story from somewhere...it was either a biography of
- Landau(Russian Physicist) or the automathography of Halmos.. Though I think
- it must have been from Landau book, I should check again.. :-)
- BTW, I thought they were physicists..did they do some math also? or did
- they publish that specific article in math journal?
-
- --
- Sung Hyun Kim
- kim_sh@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu // kim_sh@jhuvms.hcf.jhu.edu
- Dept. of Economics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218
- ..... graduate of Korea Institute of Technology.........
-