> Mathematicians like to believe the likely apocryphal tale that Nobel didn't endow a prize for math because the likely first winner was sleeping with his wife
It’s certainly apocryphal. Alfred Nobel never married.
It’s certainly apocryphal. Alfred Nobel never married.
Unlikely, yes, but the tale is not certainly apocryphal ;)
> (of a story or statement) of doubtful authenticity, although widely circulated as being true.
So it seems to be certainly apocryphal.
The rumor is that his first love interest in Russia Anna Desry preferred the mathematician Franz Lemarges.