[UA] Nobel

[Daniel Butler]

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From: <mattias.ostklint at husqvarna.se>
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Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 3:12 PM
Subject: [UA] Nobel


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> Also remember that there's no Nobel prize for Economics. There's a "prize
> in honour of the memory of Alfred Nobel" for economics. Alfred Nobel was
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> engineer, and engineers (myself included) have a deep disdain for overpaid
> beancounters. Alfred Nobel (inventor of dynamite) most likely did think
> highly of mathematicians, but his main rival for his wife was one of the
> greatest mathematicians of that time, and practically giving this guy a
lot
> of money shortly after his own death probably seemed like a bad idea. This
> last bit is rumour, but pretty well fonded rumour all the same...

That noble guy shure was smart.