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- From: robt@is.morgan.com (Rob Torop)
- Subject: Re: Jokes in papers (was Re: Einstein's Erdos number)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep9.120433@is.morgan.com>
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- References: <1992Sep8.051236.15457@husc3.harvard.edu> <VICTOR.92Sep8111850@terse4.watson.ibm.com> <neuhaus.716039445@vier>
- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 16:04:33 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?
- |>
- |>
- |> --
- |> Stephan <neuhaus@informatik.uni-kl.de>
- |> sig closed for inventory. Please leave your pickaxe outside.
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- I believe the story is in Gamow's book "One Two Three Infinity'. One of the others
- was Hans Bethe.
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- -- Rob Torop
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