Consider John Nash, math awards

Remember John Nash, the subject of the movie "A Beautiful Mind"?

Famous mathematician, now, who gets a major prize as he won a Nobel
prize, but remember, it was in Economics.

Out of curiousity I did a search on the Internet to see if he'd won
any awards from *math* society, and found not one.

I'd be interested to hear if anyone can track down any awards that
Nash's fellow mathematicians gave him, as I haven't found any, and I
don't think they've given him any because math society is weird.

Now consider Andrew Wiles, who received *multiple* math awards for
purportedly proving Fermat's Last Theorem, and he didn't even get what
used to be *the* big math award--the Field's Medal.

If you've never heard of it, that's ok.  Mathematicians have a society
that is strangely separate from the rest of the world, which seems to
follow its own rules, like how it has to my knowledge *still* not
given John Nash a single award.

Wiles actually made several hundred thousand dollars just from awards,
but was too old to get the Field's Medal which is awarded for
significant work done I think before the age of 35.

John Nash got an Economics Nobel, which is more presitigious than the
math awards anyway, but I think it telling that mathematicians,
snubbed him.


James Harris