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  3. From: mwmv@athena.cas.vanderbilt.edu (Michael Mogensen-Vermillion)
  4. Newsgroups: sci.physics,sci.math
  5. Subject: Re: Why no Nobel Prize in Math?
  6. Message-ID: <1993Jan1.201815.18409@news.vanderbilt.edu>
  7. Date: 1 Jan 93 20:18:15 GMT
  8. References: <C03zDG.JM2@knot.ccs.queensu.ca> <1993Jan1.060048.14960@news.vanderbilt.edu> <1i1qs8INNrfi@mtha.usc.edu>
  9. Sender: news@news.vanderbilt.edu
  10. Organization: Vanderbilt University Mathematics Department
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  14. In article <1i1qs8INNrfi@mtha.usc.edu> bruck@mtha.usc.edu (Ronald Bruck) writes:
  15.  
  16. (much discussion of urban legends about why Nobel snubbed mathematics
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  18.  
  19. >The astronomer went on to say that the real reason for the exclusion
  20. >of astronomy was that in those days it was considered a branch of physics,
  21. >which Nobel had already provided for.  Similarly, I have read that the
  22. >real reason for the exclusion of mathematics is that it was not considered
  23. >a practical science; that Nobel excluded _theoretical_ sciences.
  24.  
  25. *Economics* is a _pratical_ science ?!?!!  Now I'm insulted.
  26.  
  27. Mike
  28.