National leaders and their doppelgangers

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Just as George Bush the American president has to contend with George Bush the neuroscientist (and vice versa) and other George Bush scientists, so now does Gordon Brown the new British prime minister have to contend with Gordon Brown the mathematician.

Here are two notable studies by Gordon Brown:

A Remark on Semi-Simple Lie Algebras
Gordon Brown
Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, Vol. 15, No. 4 (Aug., 1964), p. 518.

and

A Class of Simple Lie Algebras of Characteristic Three
Gordon Brown
Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, Vol. 107, No. 4 (Dec., 1989), pp. 901-905.

For some George Bush science studies, see “MAY WE RECOMMEND: The Science of G. Bush“, elsewhere on the Improbable Research web site.

(NOTE TO MOLLIFY MATHEMATICIANS: The phrase “lie algebra” is usually pronounced as if the first word is spelled “lee”)

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