Re: Consider John Nash, math awards

On 2 Dec 2003 07:09:16 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Harris) wrote:

>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

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