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- From: weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: Trivial! (was: Re: Help X^2 == Y mod N)
- Message-ID: <96338@netnews.upenn.edu>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 19:48:50 GMT
- References: <1992Nov5.001930.24516@galois.mit.edu> <1992Nov5.031326.11279@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU> <1992Nov5.170945.1740@galois.mit.edu>
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- Reply-To: weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
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- In-reply-to: tycchow@riesz.mit.edu (Timothy Y. Chow)
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- In article <1992Nov5.170945.1740@galois.mit.edu>, tycchow@riesz (Timothy Y. Chow) writes:
- >>Wiener wandered away in deep thought and returned 20 minutes
- >>later to announce triumphantly that it was indeed trivial.
-
- >I've heard this exact same story told about Hardy and von Neumann and
- >various other mathematicians. Is there any hope of figuring out if such
- >an event actually occurred and if so who it was?
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- Yes. I admit I did it. End of discussion.
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- -Matthew P Wiener (weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu)
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