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Nobel Prizes for 2007
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By overconvergent
from the why doesn't maths have one? department
Posted Tue Oct 16, 2007 at 05:45:27 AM PDT
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It is well-known that there is no Nobel Prize for Mathematics, but there are prizes in both Physics and Economics, and sometimes these are mathematically related.
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| The Nobel Prize for Economics was awarded to Leonid Hurwicz, Eric Maskin and Roger Myerson for their work on mechanism design theory, which shows for instance why an auction is a good method for allocating private goods, and the Nobel Prize for Physics was awarded to Albert Fert and Peter Gruenberg for their work on Giant Magnetoresistance, which amongst other things makes the retrieval of information from hard disks much more efficient. |
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