Subject: Re: [HM] Query on Nobel Prize/movies
From: Avinoam Mann (MANN@vms.huji.ac.il)
Date: Thu Jun 01 2000 - 21:40:37 EDT
It seems that that story gets better with time. The usual version is that
Nobel was afraid that if he were to establish a mathematics prize, the
first to get it would be Mittag-Leffler, the foremost Swedish
mathematician at the time. And Nobel would not have that, because M-L had
an affair with Nobel's wife (Minkowski was probably not yet born at the
time). The story persists, no matter how many times one repeats the plain
fact that Nobel was not married.
Avinoam Mann
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