Some stuff isn't true or mangles history. Like, the Fields medal was already very well-known among mathematicians before Smale won his in Moscow in '66. At which he gave an impromptu outdoor speech criticizing both the war in Vietnam and the Soviet Union. And the real reason medal wasn't very well known in 1950 is just that it had been awarded only for the first time in 1936 before W.W. II intervened. --Dan On Aug 9, 2014, at 8:49 AM, James Buddenhagen <jbuddenh@gmail.com> wrote:
This article contained some stuff I did not know and may be of interest to some on this list. Here is a link: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/10/opinion/sunday/how-math-got-its-nobel-.htm...
P.S. I hope you can access it without being a Times subscriber, but I'm not sure.
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