FOM: Fields Medal Process This is the **crucial point** about the fields medal for me. The almost fields medalists also have their work thoroughly examined and disseminated http://www.cs.nyu.edu/pipermail/fom/1998-September/002135.html
Extractions: Mon Sep 14 17:16:08 EDT 1998 Norbert Wiener resigned from the National Academy of Science. He regretted having accepted membership in the first place. Of course election to the NAS is by secret ballot, but Wiener's main issue was not secrecy, but the very existence of competitive honors and awards. He believed that competition and disappointment in not receiving such awards was harmful to the work of young scientists, and receiving them late in one's career could make one complacent about no longer being creative or productive. I think most mathematicians like the Fields Prize. It tells us what the leaders of our profession consider important and promising. But does it harm those who hope to get it and don't? Does it foster a self-perpetuating elite? Does it do harm to fields like logic which are not included in what the leaders consider "hot"? In cold war years, and even since then, there have been charges
Salon.com Technology | Math = Beauty + Truth / (really Hard) 20 announcement of the fields medals, the highest honor in mathematics. (Grothendieck won his own fields medal in 1966, Milnor in 1962. http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/09/05/math_prizes/print.html
Extractions: By David Appell There is no Nobel Prize for mathematicians, the story goes, because of a love affair. Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite who established the prizes to spruce up his image, refused to endow a prize in mathematics because his wife was having an affair with the Swedish mathematician Gosta Magnus Mittag-Leffler. Nobel was afraid a math prize would be awarded to the mathematician-cum-Romeo, and so the mathematics community has forever been excluded from the most recognized award in all of science. Alas, the story is not true. Nobel never married and by all accounts was quite a lonely man. But his oversight may perhaps be why mathematicians get so little press. That, and the fact that non-mathematicians have no clue what they're up to. "Most people are so frightened of the name of mathematics that they are quite ready, quite unaffectedly, to exaggerate their own mathematical stupidity," said the English number theorist G.H. Hardy. But admit it: Whether you left math after a humiliating D in high school trigonometry or crawled away, exhausted and defeated, from a year of college calculus, you've always suspected that, deep down, mathematics rules the world. As you read this, ex-physicists are probably devising ever more sophisticated ways to wager your pension fund on Wall Street, and no doubt five geniuses in a government agency that does not officially exist are developing data-mining algorithms that will calculate the likelihood your baby sister is a terrorist.
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Moved We ve Moved! The World Wide Web site of the University of Toronto Department ofMathematics has now moved to its own web server. http://www.toronto.edu/math/fields.html
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