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Math Horizons "Who said it?"

The February 1999 Final Exam
Who Said It?

Answers:

 1. Isaac Newton
 2. Pierre-Simon Laplace
 3. G. H. Hardy
 4. Albert Einstein
 5. Alfred North Whitehead
 6. Tweedledee and Tweedledum in "Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There" by Lewis Carroll
 7. Arthur Cayley
 8. Bishop Berkeley
 9. Paul Erdos
10. Bertrand Russell
11. Ralph Waldo Emerson
12. Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
13. Sonia Kovalevskaia
14. W. H. Auden
15. Smilla Jaspersen in "Smilla's Sense of Snow," by Peter Hoeg

Winners:

Winners will receive copies of Out of the Mouths of Mathematicians by Rosemary Schmalz.

Jennifer Beineke, Trinity College (12 correct)
Mark Tomforde, Dartmouth College (14 correct)
John Weiss, Carleton College (14 correct)