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> Mathematicians like to believe the likely apocryphal tale that Nobel didn't endow a prize for math because the likely first winner was sleeping with his wife
by pyuser583 4y ago
> Mathematicians like to believe the likely apocryphal tale that Nobel didn't endow a prize for math because the likely first winner was sleeping with his wife
It’s certainly apocryphal. Alfred Nobel never married.
- crygin 4y agoThat you know of -- it's possible he was secretly married, and his secret wife was sleeping with the likely first winner of a Nobel prize in mathematics. Unlikely, yes, but the tale is not certainly apocryphal ;)
- rytill 4y agoGoogle gives the following definition of apocryphal: > (of a story or statement) of doubtful authenticity, although widely circulated as being true. So it seems to be certainly apocryphal.
- BMc2020 4y ago
- rurban 4y agoHe had no secret wife, but 3 non-secret official affairs. The last one with Sophie Hess lasting for 18 years, in which she had a second lover. https://oe1.orf.at/programm/20190122/540398/Die-geheimen-Liebesbriefe-von-Alfred-Nobel https://oe1.orf.at/programm/20190122/540398/Die-geheimen-Lie... The rumor is that his first love interest in Russia Anna Desry preferred the mathematician Franz Lemarges.
- nl 4y agohttps://simanaitissays.com/2018/08/23/on-alfred-nobel-and-gosta-mittag-leffler-a-rumor-squelched-part-1/ https://simanaitissays.com/2018/08/23/on-alfred-nobel-and-go... and https://simanaitissays.com/2018/08/24/on-alfred-nobel-and-gosta-mittag-leffler-a-rumor-squelched-part-2/ https://simanaitissays.com/2018/08/24/on-alfred-nobel-and-go... is possibly a better reference here.
- 082349872349872 4y agoIn that case, the likely first winner was sleeping with all of his wives.