Why Mathematicians are not awarded by Nobel Prize?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

There are several possible reasons why Nobel created no Prize for mathematics. Nobel's will speaks of prizes for those inventions or discoveries of greatest practical benefit to mankind, possibly having in mind practical rather than theoretical works.[6] Mathematics was not considered a practical science from which humanity could benefit (a key purpose for the Nobel Foundation).[citation needed]

One other possible reason was that there was already a well known Scandinavian prize for mathematicians. The existing mathematical awards at the time were mainly due to the work of Gösta Mittag-Leffler, who founded the Acta Mathematica, a century later still one of the world's leading mathematical journals. Through his influence in Stockholm he persuaded King Oscar II to endow prize competitions and honor distinguished mathematicians all over Europe, including Hermite, Bertrand, Weierstrass, and Poincaré.

It is often repeated that Nobel refused to endow a mathematics prize because his wife had an affair with Mittag-Leffler. This story is patently untrue, as Nobel never married.[7]

In 2001, the government of Norway began awarding the Abel Prize, specifically with the intention of being a substitute for the missing mathematics Nobel. Beginning in 2004, the Shaw Prize, which resembles the Nobel Prize, included an award in mathematical sciences. The Fields Medal is often described as the "Nobel Prize of mathematics", but the comparison is not very apt because the Fields is limited to mathematicians not over forty years old.

Like the science Nobels, the Crafoord Prize in mathematics is awarded by the Swedish Royal Academy. It is generally considered the mathematics equivalent of the Nobel prize in the sciences.

Answer 3

I've read somewhere that there is no Nobel Prize for maths because any valuable mathematical discovery can be applied to chemistry or physics, or economics etc. so the person is awarded the Nobel Prize for that field.

Answer 4

look at http://www.ams.org for a list of prizes awarded in mathematics. There are several awards given out for mathematicians.

The closest equivalent of the Nobel Prize i.e. big payout is the Fields Medal/Award given out I think every 5 years instead of annually like the nobel prizes.

Answer 5

Why you want to include mathematics in Nobel Prize. Have you any reason? May be you say it is science. This is another topic it is science or not by you must agree Literature and Peace are not sciences… right? So review your question and ask your self why you want to include mathematics in Nobel.

Thank you.

Answer 6

The organiser of Nobel prizes Alford Nobel was not listed .
So that Mathematics has no place.

Answer 7

The costs every year for the prizes balance with the interest on the fortune of Alfred Nobel. One more prize and the fortune shrinks every year. (Mind: this is phantasy !!)

Answer 8

at the start, there is no Nobel Prize in Economics. as a substitute there is The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in financial Sciences in memory of Alfred Nobel, usually pointed out with the Nobel Prize, and is presented for incredible contributions in Economics. Markets pass in bubbles and busts. Economics is the learn of people. people at the instant are not chemical substances; you may no longer completely are looking forward to what they do or how they'll do it. financial fashions, as an entire, are very smart and precise. Economists at the instant are not people who have been given us the place we are as we communicate. as a substitute, banks lending for income on an identical time as looking forward to housing expenditures to perpetually advance, investment banks making risky investments with too lots leverage, and debtors borrowing funds they are in a position to no longer locate the money for to pay decrease back, are who have been given us the place we are as we communicate; interior the path of a financial disaster. In precis, definite the Prize ought to stay presented to Economists.

Answer 9

Nobel hated a mathematician who took her daughter...

Answer 10

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