A good way of ending this article: "I was fascinated by the way in which the personal agendas of committee members were clothed in seemingly reasonable attempts

A good way of ending this article: "I was fascinated by the way in which the personal agendas of committee members were clothed in seemingly reasonable attempts to place restrictions on the prize," says Christopher Hollings, a historian of mathematics at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, who attended Barany's talk. "It is a nice and interesting reminder that mathematicians are people, too."