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Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 01:46:35 -0700
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From: Akshat Kumar <akumar@mail.nanosouffle.net>
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Why a mathematician, in particular? I'd hack off... well, nevermind.

Here's what snopes had to say about it:
http://www.snopes.com/science/nobel.asp

In this case, I'd rewrite the penultimate line:
"Whenever a man's motivations for a course
of action aren't clear, attributing them to
something [mathematical] usually creates
a tale both plausible and entertaining."


ak

On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 12:30 PM, erik quanstrom
<quanstro@labs.coraid.com> wrote:
> i'd be a little hacked off if my wife ran off with a mathematician, too.
> alfred just had the money to do something about it.
>
> - erik