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Classic HilbertWhile walking along the street one day, the notoriously absent-minded mathematician David Hilbert encountered the physicist James Franck. "James," he asked, "is your wife as mean as mine?" Franck, taken aback by the question, asked poor Hilbert what his wife had done. "It was only this morning that I discovered quite by accident," Hilbert replied, "that my wife does not give me an egg for breakfast. Heaven knows how long that has been going on!"
Hilbert, David (1862-1943) German mathematician and professor
[Sources: J. Mehra (ed), The Physicist's Conception of Nature]More David Hilbert anecdotesRelated Anecdote Keywords:
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