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From: gsmith@garnet.berkeley.edu (Gene W. Smith)
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Subject: Re: Academic legend (was Re: Answers...)
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Date: 1 Feb 90 08:43:29 GMT
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In-reply-to: jrk@sys.uea.ac.uk (Richard Kennaway)

In article <1076@sys.uea.ac.uk>, jrk@sys (Richard Kennaway) writes:

>>Another Academic Legend?

>I heard this story told at Oxford, where it was said to have happened at
>Cambridge.  At Cambridge, do they tell it of Oxford?

  This is definitely a Legend. I heard a version where the
subject was ring theory. The thesis was about rings with certain
conditions, about which many amazing theorems were proven by the
PhD student in question. When asked for an example,it turned out
that there weren't any.
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