Re: Amatuer mathematicians.

From: Herman Rubin (hrubin_at_odds.stat.purdue.edu)
Date: 03/14/05 

Date: 14 Mar 2005 10:34:22 -0500

In article <42347565.AF1AB9C5@ANTISPAMbtinternet.com.invalid>,
Jim Spriggs <jim.sprigs@ANTISPAMbtinternet.com.invalid> wrote:
>Fermat, most famously I suppose. Also John Napier. How about more
>recent times? Would one say that Erd\"os was an amateur? Are there any
>noteworthy amateurs working now? [Naturally when I write "noteworthy",
>I mean noteworthy for the right reasons!]

Erdos was definitely not an amateur. However, one might
make a case for Ramanujan, as he did not have the academic
training to be a mathematician. However, he was paid for
doing mathematics. 

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