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> Many mathematicians will tell you that Nobel omitted mathematics from his > prizes to spite the Swedish mathematician Gosta Mittag-Leffler, a rival The on
by kps 12y ago
> Many mathematicians will tell you that Nobel omitted mathematics from his
> prizes to spite the Swedish mathematician Gosta Mittag-Leffler, a rival
The one I heard, as a math undergrad, was that a mathematician took Nobel's wife to the limit in the horizontal plane.
- Jun8 12y agoThis juicy gossip fails to die, please see, e.g. http://www.snopes.com/science/nobel.asp http://www.snopes.com/science/nobel.asp for a nice debunking. For one thing Nobel never had a wife. Also, he emigrated from Sweden in 1865 when Mittag-Leffler was a student and rarely returned to visit.