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From: dsn@rochester.UUCP (Dana S. Nau)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Re: Coffee is the Source of All Higher Intelligence
Message-ID: <13454@rochester.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 24-Nov-85 00:15:19 EST
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Posted: Sun Nov 24 00:15:19 1985
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In article <1252@jhunix.UUCP> msc_wers@jhunix.UUCP (Edward R Scheinerman) writes:
>
>Paul Erdos has defined a mathematician as one who turns coffee 
>into theorems.

In the case of Erdos, it's turning amphetamines into theorems.  Erdos once
went off of speed for a month on a bet, but went back on it immediately
after--he claimed he couldn't do any significant math without it.
-- 
	Dana S. Nau (dsn@rochester)
	from U. of Maryland, on sabbatical at U. of Rochester