On Friday, February 26, 2016 at 10:46:22 PM UTC, William wrote: > > Lest this thread goes any further, Nathann wrote to me offlist: "There > is no way on earth that I will accept this." > > So no point in continuing this discussion. It would be like trying to > give a Fields medal to Perelman. >
Well, it's not about the money. He can refuse the money, but still be the person selected to get the prize. > > On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 2:34 PM, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 1:45 PM, Sébastien Labbé <sla...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Deaeaeaeaeaeaeaeaeaear sage-devel, > >> > >> I would like to give the 2015 Spies Prize to Nathann Cohen as he is one > of > >> the main contributor of Sage in the last ~7 years that has still not > >> received the Spies Prize. Nathann has been involved in many aspects of > Sage, > >> contributed a lot of code including documentation, is involved in > >> ask.sagemath.org and of course, and not the leaaaaaaaaaaaaaaast, in > mailing > >> lists discussions. Sometime tough discussions, we must admit, but, in > >> substance, always motivated by the improvement of Sage. > > > > +1. There are other people who have suggested and it makes sense. > > > > Nathann: > >>> Sage has gone bankrupt recently. > > > > This is a prize funded directly by this retired Dutch persons named > > Jaap Spies: https://oeis.org/100K/jaapspies.jpg > > > > > > -- > > William (http://wstein.org) > > > > -- > William (http://wstein.org) > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
