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Next up: why Shakespeare never wrote a play about the Internet.

Now, if you want to discuss why there is no Nobel Prize in Mathematics...

Sadly it's not because Nobel's wife/mistress had an affair with a Mathematician [1] :)

[1] http://www.snopes.com/science/nobel.asp

Even from the article you mentioned it is not exactly clear if that was true. It was a juicy read though for 100 year-old rumor from a pseudo-gossip column though.

I used to hear similar kinds of stories between Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. It doesn't mean they're true.

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