"an annual $3m award that has come to rival the Nobels in terms of kudos and prestige"
For those who don't know the field of mathematics there is no Nobel prize because Alfred Nobel's girlfriend was stolen away by a mathematician. And the most prestigious prize is the Fields Medal, even though it doesn't have that much money attached. It also has an age cutoff.
"an annual $3m award that has come to rival the Nobels in terms of kudos and prestige" For those who don't know the field of mathematics there is no Nobel prize because Alfred Nobel's girlfriend was stolen away by a mathematician. And the most prestigious prize is the Fields Medal, even though it doesn't have that much money attached. It also has an age cutoff.
The Fields medal is the most prestigious award in mathematics because, um... because some group has decided that it's the most prestigious medal.
The Fields medal is awarded every 4 years, only awarded to people under 40, and comes with a CA$15,000 award. Any person can only receive the award once.
The prestige of the Fields medal is all good, but it seems like the prize money is very low - it doesn't really track with the goal of furthering the field. As my old boss once quipped, "ten thousand dollars will n
He specifically named the fields and left math out. But in 1960s some big bank donated a huge chunk to the Nobel foundation and created a Nobel prize for economics.
The economists are hoping some credibility will rub on them and some uninformed people would mistakenly accept economics as science.
There are no rich people willing to endow enough money to fund a math Nobel. Mathematicians might be poor but they are mighty arrogant too. They would not mere physics and chemistry to get some credibility rubbed
Hairer grew up in Geneva where his entry for a school science competition became Amadeus – “the Swiss army knife of sound editing” – now used in updated form by music producers and games designers. He still maintains the software as a side-line to his academic work.
"an annual $3m award that has come to rival the Nobels in terms of kudos and prestige"
For those who don't know the field of mathematics there is no Nobel prize because Alfred Nobel's girlfriend was stolen away by a mathematician. And the most prestigious prize is the Fields Medal, even though it doesn't have that much money attached. It also has an age cutoff.
The Fields medal is the most prestigious award in mathematics because, um... because some group has decided that it's the most prestigious medal.
The Fields medal is awarded every 4 years, only awarded to people under 40, and comes with a CA$15,000 award. Any person can only receive the award once.
The prestige of the Fields medal is all good, but it seems like the prize money is very low - it doesn't really track with the goal of furthering the field. As my old boss once quipped, "ten thousand dollars will n
There are no rich people willing to endow enough money to fund a math Nobel. Mathematicians might be poor but they are mighty arrogant too. They would not mere physics and chemistry to get some credibility rubbed
This prize is not randomly determined; not having a random probability distribution, therefore it may be predicted. He should have predicted this.