Yes, I don't think the Fields medal was intended as the "Nobel prize of mathematics", but since it was the biggest award that existed it got promoted as such de

Yes, I don't think the Fields medal was intended as the "Nobel prize of mathematics", but since it was the biggest award that existed it got promoted as such despite its inequivalence. More recently there's the Abel prize, which tries to be a more direct Nobel prize analogue, but of course the Fields medal has a multi-decade head start in terms of promotion...