Re: Cryptographer Ever Win a Fields Medal

From: Joe Peschel (jpeschel_at_no.spam.org)
Date: 09/30/04 

Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 05:24:42 -0000

"Roger Schlafly" <rogersc1@mindspring.com> wrote in
news:pVK6d.73$xA1.46@fe25.usenetserver.com:

> 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.

The Bank of Sweden has awarded the Prize in Economic Sciences since 1969 in
memory of Nobel. I think the recipients probably consider themselves Nobel
laureates. There doesn't seem to be a prize in math equivalent to the one
in economics.

J 

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