Nobel prizes were instituted by the will of Alfred Nobel, a Swede who was a chemist, an industrialist and the inventor of dynamite. Since 1901, prizes have been awarded for achievements in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature and Peace – but not in Mathematics. Legend says that Nobel ignored mathematics because his wife rejected him for a mathematician, named Gosta Mittag Leffler. Furthermore, Nobel didn’t consider mathematics a “practical” science that had much impact on society.
That’s why Able prizes have been awarded for achievements in Mathematics.
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