Nobel prize for Mathematics

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@svdinesh (220)
India
January 6, 2007 1:02am CST
There is Nobel prize for some fields like Peace, Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Literature, Economics, etc. But Why there is no Nobel prize the field of Mathematics. I feel that it should be there. What do you feel?
1 response
@mcrowl (1050)
• New Zealand
6 Jan 07
I think Nobel was free to make up his own mind what prizes he sponsored. Mathematics didn't enter into his list of inventions or discoveries of value to mankind; he was a practical man, not a theorist.
@svdinesh (220)
• India
6 Jan 07
Yes! Your explaination cleared my doubt. Thank you.