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Leonard Eugene Dickson's story: details?
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[QUOTE="nomadreid, post: 5916421, member: 112452"] A story which is frequently to be found on the Internet is the story recounted by the American mathematician Leonard Eugene Dickson to Hadamard: Dickson's mother Tracy (née Tracy ) and his sister spent an entire evening unsuccessfully trying to solve a geometry problem. During the night the mother began to talk loudly and clearly in her sleep, outlining the details of a solution. The daughter woke up and took notes; she surprised her mother by having the solution for the class the following day. Very nice, and assumed to be not an urban myth, but I would like to include some clear gaps in my own recounting. I could not even uncover the name of the sister (or even any other evidence that he had one. Since it was "sister", not "step-sister", I presume that was also Lucy's daughter.) The story seemed to indicate that not only the daughter but also the mother was taking the geometry class, which seems dubious. (A class on geometry sounds more like secondary school.) If they were, it would have probably been at a university: what university, and what class? What was the mother (supposedly in her late thirties or early forties) doing being in the same class as her daughter? Auditing? Or was the "surprise" of the mother not as usually portrayed? Can anyone fill in any of these details? [/QUOTE]
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