Re: Consider John Nash, math awards

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Harris) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> 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.

There is the rumor that there is no Nobel prize in mathematics because
Nobel didn't like Sophus Lie, who would have received the prize if
there were one.

And not everyone that gets a Nobel prize deserves one. (e.g. the
person who invented the lobotomy).

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

Mathematicians value proving tautologies more than identifying a
particular aspect of reality with a mathematical construct.

-- 
   Ron