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- From: pierce@lanai.cs.ucla.edu (Brad Pierce)
- Subject: Re: Jokes in papers (was Re: Einstein's Erdos number)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep9.154940.20808@cs.ucla.edu>
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- References: <1992Sep8.051236.15457@husc3.harvard.edu> <VICTOR.92Sep8111850@terse4.watson.ibm.com> <neuhaus.716039445@vier>
- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 92 15:49:40 GMT
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- In article <neuhaus.716039445@vier> 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?
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- While the third author was Gamow, the physicist who allowed his name
- to be added for humorous effect was the *second* author Hans Bethe.
-
- The paper you refer to reports on Ralph Alpher's Ph.D. dissertation.
- Alpher's Ph.D. supervisor was George Gamow. The article by Alpher,
- Bethe and Gamow was published in Physical Review in 1948. (On April
- Fool's Day no less.)
-
- -- Brad Pierce --
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