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- From: marty@amaterasu.physics.uiuc.edu (Marty Gelfand)
- Subject: Re: Jokes in papers (was Re: Einstein's Erdos number)
- References: <1992Sep8.051236.15457@husc3.harvard.edu> <VICTOR.92Sep8111850@terse4.watson.ibm.com> <neuhaus.716039445@vier>
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- Organization: Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 15:49:14 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?
- >
- I also vaguely recall such a story, but it was about three physicists...
- Alfven, Bethe, and Gamow. Sorry, I don't have a citation.
- --marty gelfand marty@amaterasu.physics.uiuc.edu
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