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According to Wikipedia, the Abel Prize is considered by some as the Nobel Prize of mathematics.

by Dewie 12y ago

magicalist 12y ago
It's an analogy to explain to people the prestige and honor that comes along with the prize. There's no official ruling to be found on which one is considered to be more like the Nobel prize, and it really doesn't matter. The Fields Medal certainly has history and pedigree behind it (the Abel Prize was first awarded in 2003), but it also has some oddities, like the fact that it has an age limit, which means you won't get prizes for many mathematicians' seminal results, which often come after decades of work.
- Dewie 12y ago
  > It's an analogy to explain to people the prestige and honor that comes along with the prize. There's no official ruling to be found on which one is considered to be more like the Nobel prize, Um, you really don't think that I know that? "like the Nobel Prize" clearly means that it is the most, or one of the most, prestigious prices in its field. I continue to use the term in the colloquial sense that the article uses. What's so hard to understand about that? EDIT: that's a decent amount of downvotes for a thread with relatively few comments. I'm impressed, people!
  - magicalist 12y ago
    > What's so hard to understand about that? Understand what, exactly? Your original post didn't make it at all clear what you were posting about, so I assumed you were attempting to contest the honorific, though, again, for no clear reason. Apologies if I assumed incorrectly, but there wasn't a whole lot of context to go on.
    - Dewie 12y ago
      It's a fairly neutral statement - some mathematicians (I'm not even stating my opinion) apparently think that some other prize might have the status of "the Nobel Prize". I mean, that's the whole fucking point of the post - to make a note of the fact that this other prize might not be the most prestigious prize in some people's eyes, that some other prize might have the same level of prestige. Not to diminish to the Fields Medal, but to add a somewhat relevant factoid to the thread, considering that the article was so focused on the Nobel prize-like status of the Fields Medal. But of course since this is a somewhat typical Web forum, people have to assume the worst intent and try to snipe it, forcing me to belabor the original point which only needed one sentence to express.

According to Wikipedia, the Abel Prize is considered by some as the Nobel Prize of mathematics.

by Dewie 12y ago

According to Wikipedia, the Abel Prize is considered by some as the Nobel Prize of mathematics.

It's an analogy to explain to people the prestige and honor that comes along with the prize. There's no official ruling to be found on which one is considered to be more like the Nobel prize, and it really doesn't matter. The Fields Medal certainly has history and pedigree behind it (the Abel Prize was first awarded in 2003), but it also has some oddities, like the fact that it has an age limit, which means you won't get prizes for many mathematicians' seminal results, which often come after decades of work.

Dewie 12y ago
> It's an analogy to explain to people the prestige and honor that comes along with the prize. There's no official ruling to be found on which one is considered to be more like the Nobel prize, Um, you really don't think that I know that? "like the Nobel Prize" clearly means that it is the most, or one of the most, prestigious prices in its field. I continue to use the term in the colloquial sense that the article uses. What's so hard to understand about that? EDIT: that's a decent amount of downvotes for a thread with relatively few comments. I'm impressed, people!
- magicalist 12y ago
  > What's so hard to understand about that? Understand what, exactly? Your original post didn't make it at all clear what you were posting about, so I assumed you were attempting to contest the honorific, though, again, for no clear reason. Apologies if I assumed incorrectly, but there wasn't a whole lot of context to go on.
  - Dewie 12y ago
    It's a fairly neutral statement - some mathematicians (I'm not even stating my opinion) apparently think that some other prize might have the status of "the Nobel Prize". I mean, that's the whole fucking point of the post - to make a note of the fact that this other prize might not be the most prestigious prize in some people's eyes, that some other prize might have the same level of prestige. Not to diminish to the Fields Medal, but to add a somewhat relevant factoid to the thread, considering that the article was so focused on the Nobel prize-like status of the Fields Medal. But of course since this is a somewhat typical Web forum, people have to assume the worst intent and try to snipe it, forcing me to belabor the original point which only needed one sentence to express.