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Letter: Letter

Published 28 June 2003

From Wade Schuette

Your article on the lack of a Nobel prize in mathematics fails to mention the reason: namely that one mathematician in particular, it may have been David Hilbert, was exploring more than theoretical spaces with Mrs Nobel, and Alfred was furious.

Ann Arbor, Michigan, US

Issue no. 2401 published 28 June 2003

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