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- From: matt@physics16.berkeley.edu (Matt Austern)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics,sci.math
- Subject: Re: Why no Nobel Prize in Math?
- Date: 1 Jan 93 15:07:27
- Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (Theoretical Physics Group)
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- In-reply-to: mwmv@athena.cas.vanderbilt.edu's message of 1 Jan 93 20:18:15 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan1.201815.18409@news.vanderbilt.edu> mwmv@athena.cas.vanderbilt.edu (Michael Mogensen-Vermillion) writes:
-
- > > Similarly, I have read that the
- > >real reason for the exclusion of mathematics is that it was not considered
- > >a practical science; that Nobel excluded _theoretical_ sciences.
- >
- > *Economics* is a _pratical_ science ?!?!! Now I'm insulted.
-
- The "Nobel Prize" in economics is, in fact, nothing of the sort.
- Nobel's will does not provide for an economics award.
-
- A private organization, unconnected with Alfred Nobel (the national
- bank of Sweden, I think, but I might be wrong about that) set up a
- "Nobel memorial prize" in economics a few decades ago. Newspapers
- generally tend to gloss over this distinction, and just call it,
- incorrectly, the Nobel Prize.
-
- There is, of course, nothing stopping some mathematics association
- from doing exactly the same thing---the distinction, unfortunately,
- being that mathematicians don't have as much money as bankers.
- --
- Matthew Austern Just keep yelling until you attract a
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