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- From: akessler@bernard.ma.utexas.edu (Adam Kessler)
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- Subject: Re: Who are our best mathematicians?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov6.152118.23114@math.utexas.edu>
- Date: 6 Nov 92 15:21:18 GMT
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- >Actually, it's been awhile since I've seen anything substantive from Gauss.
- >Is he on sabbatical this year?
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- I have heard that Hilbert and Gauss are working on some of the problems that
- have popped out of the newly discovered contradiction about the interval
- [0,1) being irrational (since it lacks a rational point), but having
- rational length.
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