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Why not call it the Fields Medal?

• triplesec 12y ago
  This is a quirk of HN posting policy: to use the original article title.
  • dang 12y ago
    Except when it's misleading or linkbait. That one was arguably misleading, though with the quotes not so much. Edit: the title was "A woman wins ‘Nobel Prize of math’ for the first time". We changed the article to the more substantive simonsfoundation.org piece about Mirzakhani.
• tomp 12y ago
  The "Nobel Prize for Math" makes the significance of this prize more obvious to the people that don't yet know about it.
  • reymus 12y ago
    I agree, but it also made me click not because it was a woman, but because it made me think a Nobel prize for math suddenly exists (didn't notice the quotes.) I was actually disappointed.