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Lives of the mathematicians

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(idea) by ariels (2.1 d) (print)   ?   (I like it!) Mon May 08 2000 at 6:56:58

Similar to the lives of the philosophers, which gave biographies (mostly false) of the Greek philosphers, I'd like to start collecting urban legends and plain stories about the lives of famous mathematicians. Please note that for many of the Greek philosphers, this unreliable source is the best we have (and doctorates have been written about them)!

This metanode should link to any node containing a story about a mathematician. It doesn't have to be false, but that helps, of course.


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how Wiener found his way home "true" story about Poincaré's baker 1729 How Gauss quickly added up the numbers 1 to 100
Why is there no Nobel Prize in Mathematics? Girolamo Cardano philosophers Karl Friedrich Gauss
John von Neumann Answer: a fly and two bicycles Gauss' Law von Neumann's catastrophe
Srinivasa Ramanujan Scanners Live in Vain Wiener chaos Norbert Wiener
mathematician von Neumann corrector gauss Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
Anonymous Fermat will never find solace of yes von Neumann bottleneck Robert Hooke
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