Re: OT: mathematicians (Was: Re: Results of Poll by Email No. 27)

On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 12:50:06PM -0700, JS Bangs wrote:
> > [2] After all, "mathematicians are just machines that turn coffee into
> > theorems." -- YHL
>
> Not to stead YHL's thunder, but I beleive this quote is properly
> attributed to Paul Erdos. Or so I remember from ths fabulous biography
> of him, _The Man Who Loved Only Numbers_.
[snip]

Actually you're right. It's attributed to Erdos in my sigfile. In my
hurry, I'd not bothered to look it up, but only remembered that I hoisted
it from one of YHL's sigs; so I attributed it to her by association.


T

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