Re: Cryptographer Ever Win a Fields Medal

From: Roger Schlafly (rogersc1_at_mindspring.com)
Date: 09/30/04 

Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 20:17:38 -0700

"Jean-Luc Cooke" <jlcooke@engsoc.org> wrote
>> has a cryptographer ever won a fields medal in mathematics?
> Yes. Stephen Cook won it for his complexity analysis of RSA (N~NP

No, he did not get a Fields medal. He got a Turing award, but that
is a computer science prize, and it was not for crypto work.

>> Probably never has a shot at a Nobel.
> No math-type can recieve one. Nobel prize two requirements (more or
> less):
> - significant improvment to the human condition
> - falls in one of these catagories: chemistry, physiology & medicine,
> physiscs,
> literature, peace and economics.

Yes, I think that's right, except that the economics prize is not
really a Nobel prize. There is a similar Math prize,
but it is not really a Nobel prize either.