Re: Who is Uncle Al?


softwarelabus@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> When I think Nobel Prize I think of Ed Witten, but I guess there's no
> Nobel Prize in mathematics. Although Ed won the Fields medal. I'm
> curious why they would not want to give a Nobel Prize in mathematics?
>
> Paul

As I understand it, Nobel didn't will a prize in mathematics because he
didn't think that mathematicians contributed as much to the forwarding
of humanity as those in the other fields. Note that he didn't will
economics either, that was added later.

As far as I know, no Fields prize winner has ever won a Nobel. There is
little love lost between the two prize units.

PD

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