Comment on Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025parentComments−tombert11moIt still kind of baffles me that there’s no Nobel prize for mathematics.I know there are plenty of other math awards out there, so it’s not really “worse” or anything, I have always just thought it was a weird omission.−D-Coder11moBlame Alfred Nobel, he set up the original categories. According to Wikipedia his goals were prizes "which annually recognize those who 'conferred the greatest benefit to humankind'". Perhaps he didn't consider math as directly benefiting mankind.−tombert11moI know, I just find it odd that apparently literature directly benefits mankind but not math.−ants_everywhere11moThey can always do what economics did and create a new prize and name it in honor of Alfred Nobel
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It still kind of baffles me that there’s no Nobel prize for mathematics.
I know there are plenty of other math awards out there, so it’s not really “worse” or anything, I have always just thought it was a weird omission.
Blame Alfred Nobel, he set up the original categories. According to Wikipedia his goals were prizes "which annually recognize those who 'conferred the greatest benefit to humankind'". Perhaps he didn't consider math as directly benefiting mankind.
I know, I just find it odd that apparently literature directly benefits mankind but not math.
They can always do what economics did and create a new prize and name it in honor of Alfred Nobel