Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site jhunix.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!umcp-cs!aplcen!jhunix!msc_wers From: msc_wers@jhunix.UUCP (Edward R Scheinerman) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Re: Coffee is the Source of All Higher Intelligence Message-ID: <1252@jhunix.UUCP> Date: Thu, 21-Nov-85 12:38:31 EST Article-I.D.: jhunix.1252 Posted: Thu Nov 21 12:38:31 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 23-Nov-85 10:24:39 EST References: <515@harvard.UUCP> Organization: Johns Hopkins Univ. Computing Ctr. Lines: 9 > Dear Movers and Shakers, > > In the course of reading Hadamard's "The Psychology of Invention in the > Mathematical Field", I have come across evidence supporting a fact > which we coffee achievers have long appreciated: no really creative, > intelligent thought is possible without a good cup of coffee...... Paul Erdos has defined a mathematician as one who turns coffee into theorems.