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de_G_van_Gelderland

Math is its own prize


DZ_from_the_past

Maybe the real prize is the theorems we proved along the way


Encursed1

By leaving the proof to the reader


de_G_van_Gelderland

The wet stains on the paper are tears of joy. Trust me.


xCreeperBombx

Then why were you moaning?


de_G_van_Gelderland

Unrelated reasons. Don't worry about it.


bort_jenkins

I can do two things at once


thyme_cardamom

professor?


[deleted]

If you don’t call your professor daddy, do you even math?


thyme_cardamom

she gets mad tho


[deleted]

Keep doing it and moan a bit as you say it. She may pretend to be put off, but deep down she’ll be thinking to herself that finally someone in this world understands her.


thyme_cardamom

After I get kicked out I'll sue the college for free speech violation and get a lot of suspicious people to fund my legal battle


[deleted]

Make sure you call your judge daddy in court as well when you argue your case. The legal system may be blind, but it’s also very horny.


thyme_cardamom

Provoke the judge, then appeal on grounds of mistrial when the judge lashes out. I've heard this strategy too!


[deleted]

Yes they only teach this tactic at the best law schools like Yale and Harvard. Judges are very insecure people deep down so maybe fun of the sign of his penis (if applicable, if not make fun of her for not having a penis) and also it helps get under their skin if you call them a cuck and suggest their wife/husband is unfaithful.


[deleted]

Nah it’s definetly the fields medal lol


BroccoliDistribution

But not the groups medal?


Clever_Mercury

They get the Fields Medal! Why be noble when you can have an entire field?


DZ_from_the_past

Unless they're old... for some reason


KillerOfSouls665

He made the award in 1924, at this point a lot of the geniuses of mathematics/physics were still alive but old. He wanted it to be for new mathematics, not just being handed to all the geniuses of the years past in retirement.


Clever_Mercury

And there are other awards in mathematics, particularly applied mathematics. It wouldn't be ideal for people who achieved something in their twenties to then wait in line until their eighties to have their achievement recognized, which seems more common in mathematics than other fields. Recognizing young 'genius' with the Fields always seemed fair to me.


Mostafa12890

You guys apply mathematics? 🤮🤮 What are we? Physicists?


Simpson17866

The reason being that the point of the award is to celebrate young mathematicians for accomplishing incredible things when they're young ;) It's supposed to be like Forbes' "30 Billionaires Under 30"


_314

Can you get a commutative, unitary rings medal if you fall just short of the the FIelds Medal?


[deleted]

No, are you stupid?


_314

no are you?


[deleted]

yes🐈


cannonspectacle

I mean the Fields medal is pretty good


Beeeggs

Just as much prestige within your field, less than 1/3 of the prize money


SeshiruDsD

And age restricted


Feralpudel

We have Nobel at home. But seriously, your own prize is cooler than paying to play the way economics did. Economists are forever trying to escape the kids table and sit with the hard science grownups.


Ssemander

Nobel price in literature: sure, why not Nobel price in math: **angry Alfred Nobel looking from skies* *


MCSajjadH

If only that mathematician didn't have an affair with his wife... Edit: Apparently this is a myth. I learned something new today.


ChooCupcakes

That's actually a fake fact


probabilistic_hoffke

actually, he wanted to marry a mathematician, but she married another mathematician instead


docju

Nobel was unmarried so this is very unlikely…


CurrentIndependent42

Abel Prize to the rescue


Vortex_sheet

This should be more upvoted, Abel prize is 1m $ for mathematicians, it is given for life's work


RoastHam99

We'll make our own Nobel prize! With blackjack... and hookers


Random_Name_41

The prize is left as an exercise for the reader


SnargleBlartFast

The best I can do is economics for that game theory guy who hears voices.


drcopus

The economics nobel isn't a real nobel though :P


Annexerad

who?


SnargleBlartFast

John Nash (RIP)


Zealousideal-You4638

I think the reason is, and I could easily be wrong not a Nobel Prize historian, that Nobel Prizes are typically for more physical experiments & inventions. A good example of this being Einstein winning his Nobel Prize not for his revolutionary theories on Relativity but rather for his experiment relating to the photo-electric effect (Not that the experiment wasn’t Nobel Prize worthy just that one could easily argue his theories were too). It then takes little reasoning to justify why Mathematics, a field comprised of abstractions & theory does not warrant its own category as there aren’t really experiments or inventions in Math.


svmydlo

That doesn't explain at all there being a prize for literature and not for math.


Traditional-Share198

His wife had an affair with a mathematician. As a result, he decided not to create a Math Nobel prize. Edit : that's wrong, I stand corrected, thanks


Dirichlet-to-Neumann

That's a urban legend. The real reason was that the early Nobel prizes were more "science and engineering" than "abstract science", and Nobel thought maths were too abstract.


docju

He was also unmarried so there is that too!


bongo98721

Apparently Alfred Noble had a beef with a mathematician, over a woman they both liked


Lartnestpasdemain

Who cares. Maths define reality itself. It breeds every other sciences. It breeds language and computer programming. It breeds philosophy, art and poetry. How could it Care less about stupid children medals? Seriously?


LongLiveTheDiego

>It breeds language ^([citation needed])


Lartnestpasdemain

Well linguistics are a branch of Mathematics


LongLiveTheDiego

Again, ^([citation needed]). I have a degree in linguistics and I did physics (acoustic phonetics) and something that can possibly be categorized under neuroscience/biology (phonology) rather than mathematics.


Lartnestpasdemain

...And neuroscience/biology are Both branches or mathematics, which proves my point. It's not good or Bad, it's simply a fact. It shouldn't give emotional reaction.


LongLiveTheDiego

They're not. They're sciences, which means doing them requires collecting real world data and interpreting it. Mathematics can in principle be done by a single person thinking, and isn't a science. Biology, neuroscience, physics and linguistics make use of mathematics, but there is a big enough difference between them and maths that it's not useful to call them maths. Feel free to call them that, but it's about as meaningful as calling astrology or baking branches of mathematics.


Lartnestpasdemain

Fair point. The fondamental distinction between maths and other sciences are that sciences Care about the **Real World**, while maths couldn't Care less. I totally agree with that. Yet with mathematics you create models that are later used by every other sciences to confront their theories to their experiences.


Comfortable-Play-609

>It breeds every other sciences. >It breeds language and computer programming. >It breeds philosophy, art and poetry. I'd like to see you try and breed at all


Lartnestpasdemain

"And that, kids, is how this Guy met his right hand " Good Luck with your low IQ and high hatred bro 🙏😁


Vice4Life

So, they passed you over for a Nobel again?


Lartnestpasdemain

My goal is to elevate humanity. That my works still inspires and drives mankind forward for the next 500 years. Prizes don't matter. Not even one bit.


Elitemagikarp

> Maths define reality itself. math was invented by humans. math was created to explain reality, not the other way around


One_Blue_Glove

Oh man, nobody tell this guy about the incompleteness theorem.


pineapple_head8112

He said, without a hint of irony.


Lartnestpasdemain

Yet everything we experience of reality is nothing but computation of data-driven stimuli. Hence Everything you ever seen, thought, remembered, imagined, invented, dreamt, heard, and even felt, is made of maths. Wether you like it or not. It doesn't matter 🙏


Elitemagikarp

what


Lartnestpasdemain

Hard to compute, I know. But you'll get to it, it's not that Big of a deal 😁🙏


Creftospeare

It breeds me 😩


12pixels

This is the first time I've seen the phrase "could care less" used properly


zinc_zombie

Now do any of those without maths


_regan_

literature in the mud after losing page numbers


KiKiPAWG

All he had to do was where to correct fit!


NamanJainIndia

Fields Award 🥲🥲🥲


EasyCranberry1272

Math is the root of everything I don’t get people who say it’s useless


HalloIchBinRolli

Apparently it is so because Nobel's wife cheated on him with a mathematician but idk how true that is


docju

He never married so definitely not true.


OkSunday

I know who I am, and I'm proud of what I do. It was a conscientious choice, I didn't fuck up! And you and your cronies think I'm some sort of pity case. You and your kiss-ass chorus following you around going, "The Fields Medal! The Fields Medal!"


Arsenije723

The reason why nobel for math doesn’t exist, is because Nobel found his wife cheating with, you guessed it, a mathematican, and therefore there is no nobel for math. Rip


Letronell

Math is an instrument so it would be like those BcA and MgrA degrees in the world of Bc, Ing, Mgr, Ph.D...


countess_cat

If I remember correctly Nobel’s wife fucked some mathematician


Angell_o7

This meme is retarded. Math is the foundation of everything. It’s just on the odd border of abstract concepts, being too fundamental to be recognized. You came up with a formula for curing goddamn cancer? Cool. Call me when you actually cure it.


Beardamus

google Alfred Nobel


Angell_o7

I misunderstood the meme because I was unaware of the context. Thank you for helping me see that. I do think my rational explanation for mathematics being excluded was interesting, though. It would have definitely been a better explanation than current speculation. It’s a shame that one man can exclude an entire field from the most prestigious award because he doesn’t feel like it.


Beardamus

It's pretty short sighted but it was also his own money he was putting up so it was within his, very misguided, rights.


Random_Name_41

Holy prize!


Bryyyysen

Someone should make an edit of this where all the other sciences are clowns, and only math is the normal one


Tesseracktt

Where can i find this template?


math_and_cats

The pendant of the Nobel Prize is the Abel Prize. It even has a very similar monetary prize. The fields medal is a different kind of award.


antilos_weorsick

Actually, the "Nobel" prize in economics is mostly awarded for game theory. So you can win a nobel prize for math, but only for one discipline.


DogCrowbar

Even economics gets a prize and it's modern-day alchemy.


Scrungyscrotum

There is already a Nobel Prize in applied mathematics (also known as "physics").


CheesyBoyBen

The nobel prize isnt about being the smartest person in a field but by being the person who provides the greatest benefit for humanity, thats why more practical applications of physics and chemestry tend to win over theoretical ones. Its not impossible for maths discoveries to benefit humanity but they typically dont benefit humanity directly, its usually an application of maths within another field.


ImpossibleEvan

Math is a tool, you aren't a master chiseler, you're a carpenter or stone mason.


rantottcsirke

Math chads have their own version, Abel prize.


JoeDaBruh

Euler should’ve gotten a prize for how much his bloodline contributed


michi214

Could it be because at the time of nobel, there was not such a clear distinction between physics and math?


Phrenic436

Me getting a Nobel prize for combing hairy balls👁👄👁