why isn't the noble award given to mathematicians?

Answer 1

It's Nobel.

Answer 2

I bet you're talking about Nobel prize. No formal explanation is given for this but there is a story behind this, being speculated. Alfred Nobel once falled in love with a girl who later dated a mathematician. Since then Nobel dislike mathematician and so the prize has no share for any mathematician.

Answer 3

Well maybe because mathematics is such a broad subject, I can name a few so called mathematicians who have won the Nobel prize
The physics and economics prizes usually go to mathematicians. Both subjects require a certain amount of mathematical knowledge.
Look here for all winners and see how many mathematicians you find, John Nash being one that comes to mind, from the film a beautiful mind!
http://nobelprize.org/index.html

Answer 4

I' ve read a funny story about it. Alfred Nobel's wife / girlfriend (I'm not sure) was in love with a mathematician. He was jealous about it and that's why he never founded a prize for mathematicians. Maybe not true, but more funny than the others explanations!! :P :)

Answer 5

there is not any Nobel Prize for arithmetic. a worry-free legend states that Nobel desperate against a prize in arithmetic because of the fact a woman - reported to be the two his fiance, spouse, or mistress - rejected him for or cheated on him with a everyday mathematician, generally claimed to be Gosta Mittag-Leffler. there is not any historic data to help the tale, and Nobel became in no way married.

Answer 6

Because the Nobel Prizes were first created to give money to aspiring young scientists to help them do experiments, and you really can't experiment much with math.

Answer 7

There isn't much room for experiementation and discovery in mathematics.