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Nobel Prize for literature 2009
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Peder
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At least it would have been a Nobel Prize in Mathematics. But just out of curiosity, when did people start saying "maths" instead of mathematics, or am I much much older than I think I am. Or maybe I'm just in the wrong time and the wrong place . . . the wrong song in the wrong style . . . the wrong game with the wrong chips . . . though tempting, they're the wrong lips. . . -- Cole Porter.
Who?
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Who?
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Since you asked:
Source: OED online.
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O and the variety without the s was used as early as 1847. Look:
Also from the OED. :flowers:
beer good
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Testament that made Alfred Nobel should be checked and who, nowadays, assume the competences for choosing candidates to Nobel, they also should award a prize to maths discipline. IMO, Mathematics is the mother of all sciences and contributes to all the fields for which nobel prizes are awarded.
You're welcome to check the will yourself. It's pretty specific.
Excerpt from the Will of Alfred Nobel
His money, his prize, his choice on whom or what to reward. It's not like there aren't plenty of mathematics awards anyway.
Incidentally, I picked up Müller's Atemschaukel. Looks pretty damn good.
Cosimah2o
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Tack
for you link beer good.. Well, The Nobel Prize in Economics, the only award not included in Nobel's will, was created by the Swedish Central Bank ( Sveriges Riksbank) in 1968. Besides, the Nobel prize in Economics is awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (KVA), a scientific organization that promote primarily the natural sciences and Mathematics.. Then, why there is not a Nobel prize in Mathematics yet?IMO, it seems an implausible fact.
beer good
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Which is why many, including those who created it and many of those who have won it, don't consider it one of the Nobel prizes. It's not even called the Nobel Prize in Economics, it's the Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. Like I said above, it's an independent award that sort of piggybacks on the others.
Awarded by, yes. Created by, no. For starters, I doubt they have the sort of cash necessary to set up a prize of the same magnitude.
To be honest, I have no idea why it would matter that the Nobel prizes, who have no official status of any kind and were never intended to, don't include a maths award. There's no Nobel Prize in music either, or in architecture, or in ecology, or in... well, any discipline beyond the five. If you want a similar prize for maths, what about the Abel Prize?
On an unrelated note, I think Jimi Hendrix should have recorded an album made up entirely of Bob Dylan covers. Why didn't he? Huh? And why won't someone record a Jimi Hendrix album of Bob Dylan covers now? :innocent:
Cosimah2o
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I don't want to enter a long debate about Mathematics discipline ( the language of science) and all the prizes.. I had some doubts regarding your thread. Well, you are swedish citizen so you could help me to clear up my knowledge gap. Maybe, the key about this riddle can be Gösta Mittag-Leffler.
Tack så mycket beer good
beer good
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I don't want to enter a long debate about Mathematics discipline ( the language of science) and all the prizes.. I had some doubts regarding your thread. Well, you are swedish citizen so you could help me to clear up my knowledge gap. Maybe, the key about this riddle can be Gösta Mittag-Leffler.
Tack så mycket beer good
Very very late reply but I only just stumbled across this on Snopes so I thought I'd post it here for completeness' sake:
snopes.com: No Nobel Prize for Math