A STORY BEHID ONE NOBEL PRIZE

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A STORY BEHID ONE NOBEL PRIZE How one man ALMOST
got the ALMOST Nobel Prize
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GREAT DISCOVERIES MADE BY RUSSIAN PHYSICISTS that
were credited to someone else 1. Renormalization
Group - A.M. Polyakov (1974)
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GREAT DISCOVERIES MADE BY RUSSIAN PHYSICISTS that
were credited to someone else 1. Renormalization
Group - A.M. Polyakov (1974) 2. Radio
- A.S. Popov (1895)
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GREAT DISCOVERIES MADE BY RUSSIAN PHYSICISTS that
were credited to someone else 1. Renormalization
Group - A.M. Polyakov (1974) 2. Radio
- A.S. Popov (1895) 3.
Newtons Laws - L.D. Landau
(1957)
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Nobel Prize to those who "shall have conferred
the greatest benefit on mankind
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Ig Nobel Prize for achievements that cannot or
should not be reproduced
Nobel Prize to those who "shall have conferred
the greatest benefit on mankind
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2002 Ig Nobel Prize in Economics To The
executives, corporate directors, and auditors of
Enron, Dynegy, Informix, Kmart, WorldCom, Xerox,
Arthur Andersen et al. For adapting the
mathematical concept of imaginary numbers for use
in the business world.
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First reported at PhysTech Annual Anti-Science
Conference in 1999
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Ig Nobel Lecture By Sergey M. Frolov Imaginary
money prospects, illusions, hallucinations
Given in the presence of the members of the Ig
Nobel Committee and His Majesty The King of Ig
Sweden
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The Logic behind 2D-Money A. Economy is in
crisis B. We need more money, but were do we get
it? C. If we just print more money, its gonna
get worse
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The Logic behind 2D-Money A. Economy is in
crisis B. We need more money, but were do we get
it? C. If we just print more money, its gonna
get worse ---------------------------------------
--- Lets print conceptually new
money! Two-dimensional (2D) Money real
imaginary ----------------------------------------
-- Lots of imaginary money - complex solutionto
financial problems!
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Originally Developed for Russia
Country Russian Federation Economy
Struggling Reasons Crash of Soviet Union, Period
of transition to modern economic system Our
Solution Imaginary Money!
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Now will work for America!

I like it. Lets try it. It cant hurt
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Imaginary State Quarters
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Imaginary State Quarters
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Problems That 2D-Money can help you solve
Problem 1. One foot of a power cable costs 1
dollar. How much does a square foot of power
cable cost?
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Problems That 2D-Money can help you solve
Problem 1. One foot of a power cable costs 1
dollar. How much does a square foot of power
cable cost?
Answer One square dollar! QED
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Exciting new financial tools
Money rotations
Application Lets Rotate Russias foreign debt
by 180 degrees!
Re
Consequences International monetary fund owes
Russia 30 billion dollars!
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Future work QUANTUM MONEY Money that are THERE
and NOT THERE We asked NSF for 15 billion
dollars to experiment with