1625.- Axiomas para escribir

Alguna vez hablamos por acá de las coautorías de los papers (60-40), pero no había visto que una de las parejas más fructíferas de las matemáticas habían formulado cuatro axiomas que debían respetar en su trabajo conjunto, según cuenta Bollobas:

i.- when one wrote to the other, it was completely indifferent whether what they wrote was right or wrong.

ii.- when one received a letter from the other, he was under no obligation whatsoever to read it, let alone to answer it.

iii.- although it did not really matter if they both thought about the same detail, still, it was preferable that they should not do so.

Y el más interesante de todos:

Finally, the fourth, and perhaps most important axiom, stated that it was quite indifferent if one of them had not contributed the least bit to the contents of a paper under their common name.