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Mathematician Knighted
news.bbc.co.uk — Its good to see a Mathematician stepping to the ranks of Sean Connery and Paul McCartney.
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- dampjam, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1-1 comments!?!?
http://img358.imageshack.us/img358/6821/minusone9os.jpg - grim_reapa, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0i saw that too.... i was thinking it could have been from a comment by someone ive blocked...?
- Truegod, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0-1 comments... weird... I think Kevin talked about stuff like that in one of the Digg nations. Something about back up disks not updating or something...
- kdkirsch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Professor Ball is not the first mathematician to be knighted. Professor Wiles (who proved Fermat's Last Theorem) was made a Knight of the British Empire in 2000.
- Spencerocks, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1I don't like the monarchy, what the hell do they do? They spendout taxes, and last year they spent so much they raised taxes by an average of 2p per house.
Wankers. - yukevster, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0"I don't like the monarchy, what the hell do they do? They spendout taxes, and last year they spent so much they raised taxes by an average of 2p per house.
Wankers."
Charming young man there.. - MrPockets, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Professor Ball is not the first mathematician to be knighted. Professor Wiles (who proved Fermat's Last Theorem) was made a Knight of the British Empire in 2000." Hey Kirsch, i didn't see anywhere in the article that he was the first mathematician knighted, it just said there was one, this is on here because it happened more recently then wiles, but still a good point
- SweetsGreen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This guy can kick Bond's ass.
- lenwood, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Right On. Math wins again!
+Digg - Mjhavok, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Its about time people who actually do stuff get praise.
- lenwood, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I'm with Mjhavok, we need more of this.
- timewarrior, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Roger Penrose was knighted in 1994
Michael Francis Atiyah was knighted in 1983 - timewarrior, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Issac Newton in 1705
- slopedsideways, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0thank you timewarrior, I couldn't believe that Newton wasn't the first person mentioned in the comments thread. Though the -1 thing was kind of weird.
- Quintessence, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0digg just for mentioning Connery
- yahoofrom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0mathematics is beautiful.
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