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It still kind of baffles me that there’s no Nobel prize for mathematics. I know there are plenty of other math awards out there, so it’s not really “worse” or
by tombert 1y ago
It still kind of baffles me that there’s no Nobel prize for mathematics.
I know there are plenty of other math awards out there, so it’s not really “worse” or anything, I have always just thought it was a weird omission.
- ants_everywhere 1y agoThey can always do what economics did and create a new prize and name it in honor of Alfred Nobel
- D-Coder 1y agoBlame Alfred Nobel, he set up the original categories. According to Wikipedia his goals were prizes "which annually recognize those who 'conferred the greatest benefit to humankind'". Perhaps he didn't consider math as directly benefiting mankind.
- tombert 1y agoI know, I just find it odd that apparently literature directly benefits mankind but not math.