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  1. Newsgroups: sci.math
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!news.univie.ac.at!email!mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at!rz
  3. From: rz@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Richard Zach)
  4. Subject: Re: famous non-mathematicians who majored in math
  5. Message-ID: <1992Oct15.162929.6631@email.tuwien.ac.at>
  6. Sender: news@email.tuwien.ac.at
  7. Nntp-Posting-Host: mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at
  8. Reply-To: zach@csdec1.tuwien.ac.at
  9. Organization: Technische Universit"at Wien
  10. References: <1992Oct8.191230.16442@lehi3b15.CSEE.Lehigh.EDU> <1992Oct13.202553.7542@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> <1992Oct13.223043.16366@husc3.harvard.edu> <98617@bu.edu>
  11. Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 16:29:29 GMT
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  14. > >>>         So the question is, do you know of any well-known people who 
  15. |> >>> majored in math but aren't known as mathematicians?
  16.  
  17. Robert Musil (Austrian writer: _The Man without Qualities_)
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  20. Richard Zach                         Technische Universitaet Wien
  21. [zach@csdec1.tuwien.ac.at]     Abteilung fuer Formale Logik 185.2
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