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  1. Newsgroups: sci.math
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!galois!riesz!jbaez
  3. From: jbaez@riesz.mit.edu (John C. Baez)
  4. Subject: Re: Who are our best mathematicians?
  5. Message-ID: <1992Nov6.031126.7157@galois.mit.edu>
  6. Sender: news@galois.mit.edu
  7. Nntp-Posting-Host: riesz
  8. Organization: MIT Department of Mathematics, Cambridge, LA
  9. References: <92310.121654KGHDB@ASUACAD.BITNET>
  10. Date: Fri, 6 Nov 92 03:11:26 GMT
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  13. In article <92310.121654KGHDB@ASUACAD.BITNET> Hans DeBano <KGHDB@ASUACAD.BITNET> writes:
  14.  
  15. >Actually, it's been awhile since I've seen anything substantive from Gauss.
  16. >Is he on sabbatical this year?
  17.  
  18. Mathematicians generally burn out when they are over 150 years old.
  19. Gauss is an exception, however; he is here visiting U. C. Riverside, but
  20. he has adopted a pseudonym since he is sick of proving yet another
  21. "Gauss's theorem," inventing yet another "Gaussian," or finding another
  22. "Gauss law."  
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