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    Bad news for math people.

    10:35 AM CDT on Monday, April 20, 2009

    Associated Press

    LONDON -- Famed mathematician Stephen Hawking has been rushed to a hospital and is seriously ill, Cambridge University said Monday.

    The university said Hawking has been fighting a chest infection for several weeks, and was being treated at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge, the university city north of London.

    "Professor Hawking is very ill," said Gregory Hayman, the university's head of communications. "He is undergoing tests. He has been unwell for a couple of weeks."

    Hawking, 67, gained renown for his work on black holes, and has remained active despite being diagnosed at 21 with motor neurone disease (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), an incurable degenerative disease.

    For some years, Hawking has been almost entirely paralyzed, and he communicates through an electronic voice synthesizer activated by his fingers.

    "Professor Hawking is a remarkable colleague. We all hope he will be amongst us again soon," said Professor Peter Haynes, head of the university's Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics.

    Hawking had canceled an appearance at Arizona State University on April 6 because of his illness.

    He announced last year that he would step down from his post as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, a title once held by the great 18th century physicist Isaac Newton, and the end of this academic year. However, the university said Hawking intended to continue working as Emeritus Lucasian Professor of Mathematics.
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    That's too bad Truly one of the great minds.
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    • #3
      I hope steps are being taken to freeze his brain for installation into a combat cyborg should the time come.
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      • #4
        Hawking hasn't done anything since the 70s.

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        • #5
          You only say that because you hate attempts to make more accessible a field of science which you feel your expertise in makes you superior to other human beings.
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          • #6
            No, I say that because he hasn't done anything since the 70s.

            I also think that as an educational effort such attempts are doomed to failure. They may well serve a propaganda purpose, however. Otherwise we might all have to get real jobs.

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            Killing it is the new killing it
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            • #7
              He was in Star Trek NG.
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              • #8
                Hawking + Whoppi Goldberg = AwesomeBabies
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                • #9
                  12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
                  Stadtluft Macht Frei
                  Killing it is the new killing it
                  Ultima Ratio Regum

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                  • #10
                    Blah

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by KrazyHorse View Post
                      They may well serve a propaganda purpose, however. Otherwise we might all have to get real jobs.

                      Which means he has done something. So there.
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                      • #12
                        12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
                        Stadtluft Macht Frei
                        Killing it is the new killing it
                        Ultima Ratio Regum

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                        • #13
                          Hope he pulls through. Losing him would be a tragic blow to the world of karaoke.
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                          • #14
                            Saying Stephen Hawkings is extremely ill is like saying Wilt Chamberlain is extremely tall. It's what he does.

                            Still, I hope he's okay.

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                            • #15
                              I don't know Stephen Hawking and I've never been gay, but his illness has paralyzed every muscle he has except his heart and his brain. He is proof that you can exercise your mind simply by thinking rather than by straining it like a calf muscle or a heart. I feel that when his body is autopsied, his brain will be as large as his atrophied penis is small. We can all learn something even if it is not the 1970s, and there is no substitute for keeping physically active and eating right.

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