On Saturday, February 27, 2016, Dima Pasechnik <dimp...@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Friday, February 26, 2016 at 10:46:22 PM UTC, William wrote:
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>> Lest this thread goes any further, Nathann wrote to me offlist: "There
>> is no way on earth that I will accept this."
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>> So no point in continuing this discussion. It would be like trying to
>> give a Fields medal to Perelman.
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> Well, it's not about the money. He can refuse the money, but still be the
> person selected to get the prize.
>

By "this" he means the prize.  Just like Perelmen.

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>> On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 2:34 PM, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 1:45 PM, Sébastien Labbé <sla...@gmail.com>
>> 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.
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>> > Nathann:
>> >>> Sage has gone bankrupt recently.
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>> > This is a prize funded directly by this retired Dutch persons named
>> > Jaap Spies:   https://oeis.org/100K/jaapspies.jpg
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > William (http://wstein.org)
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>> William (http://wstein.org)
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