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Nobel Prize goes to mathematicians

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By overconvergent
Posted Tue Oct 11, 2005 at 01:52:59 AM PDT

It is well-known that there is no Nobel Prize for mathematics, but some mathematicians have managed to win Nobel Prizes, normally for Economics.

This year's Nobel Prize for Economics has been awarded to Robert Aumann and Thomas Schelling, for their work on game theory.

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Aumann in particular has done interesting mathematics, most notably on infinitely repeated games. One of the classic examples of this is the infinitely repeated Prisoner's Dilemma.

Other well-known mathematical winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics include Kenneth Arrow for his work on voting theory, and John Nash for his work on game theory. Bertrand Russell won the Nobel Prize for Literature.

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Nobel Prize goes to mathematicians | 3 comments (3 topical, 0 hidden)

[new] Nobel Prize (none / 0) (#1)
by Majalo on Wed Oct 26, 2005 at 03:48:08 PM PDT

Why is there no nobel prize for mathematics? Surely the work in this field is of equal importance to that of the fields of biology, chemistry, physics et al. However these mathematicians are recieving great credit and well done to them otfkthx 6912041811

[new] not only in economics ... (none / 0) (#2)
by jacob on Wed Dec 21, 2005 at 10:58:53 PM PDT

One example I know of is the 1998 noble prize in Chemistry awarded to John Pople (jointly with Walter Kohn). Pople was trained as a mathematician in Cambridge in the 1940's, and his research is in computational quantum Chemistry. Its interesting to read his autobiography and other things in: http://nobelprize.org/chemistry/laureates/1998/index.html

[new] Clive won too (none / 0) (#4)
by Vincenze on Wed Mar 15, 2006 at 09:24:05 PM PDT

Also, Clive Granger won the Nobel prize in Economics in 2003. He won it "for methods of analyzing economic time series with common trends (cointegration)"... So he's more of a statistician...he's a very good speaker as well, very accesible. That's the great thing about maths, it's applicable. Vincenze.
http://www.vincenze.com

Nobel Prize goes to mathematicians | 3 comments (3 topical, 0 hidden)

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