Posted on 10/15/2024 7:28:01 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
“What does this have to do with physics?”
my first thought as well ... and as best as i can tell, the answer is zip, nada, zero, nothing, none ...
https://biswa1982.blogspot.com/2007/02/why-is-there-no-nobel-prize-in.html
Archibald had visited Mittag-Leffler and, on his report, it would seem that M-L *believed* that the absence of a Nobel Prize in mathematics was due to an estrangement between the two men. (This at least is the natural reading, but not the only possible one.)
I wonder...what was the other reading, and why is that one more credible than the natural reading?
Historians clearly exaggerate when they say there is no evidence of any intention for a Nobel math prize.
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