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Leonard Eugene Dickson's story: details?
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[QUOTE="nomadreid, post: 5916451, member: 112452"] Thanks, Borek. That was also my impression, but when I looked at original account (instead of the secondary ones I knew the story from) , I noticed that someone (me? the secondary sources?) had read the wrong pronoun: not the mathematician's sister, but the mother's sister (Dickson's aunt). Oops. o:) :oops: This makes more sense of the phrase: "...mother and her sister, who, at school, were rivals in geometry,..." So, I guess it was in secondary school in Iowa; this leaves only the detail as to the sister's name. (Source: [URL='http://worrydream.com/refs/Hadamard%20-%20The%20psychology%20of%20invention%20in%20the%20mathematical%20field.pdf']http://worrydream.com/refs/Hadamard - The psychology of invention in the mathematical field.pdf[/URL]) Another minor correction: that should have read "Dickson's mother Lucy (née Tracy )" [/QUOTE]
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