From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 15:30:01 -0400 To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20111013172210.GD1976@vicerveza.homeunix.net> References: <20111013171959.GA3814@polynum.com> <20111013172210.GD1976@vicerveza.homeunix.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Sad News Topicbox-Message-UUID: 37b901b0-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Thu Oct 13 13:23:01 EDT 2011, viriketo@gmail.com wrote: > On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 07:19:59PM +0200, tlaronde@polynum.com wrote: > > And it's a chance that there is no Nobel for mathematics or computer > > science: no need to be deshonored by this mondaine crap. > > Or there are shameful "Nobel" prizes, like the economics, started by the Bank of > Sweden taking profit of Nobel's name, and with very strong political biases, > denounced even by those receiving the award. And presented by the press usually > neglecting these details. 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