Turing Award winner

So the Turing award - computer science’s Nobel - has been awarded.  The Pontiff forgives old Alfred Nobel for not including CS in his awards since back then computers were people.  But what about the mathematicians?  I mean, the Fields Medal is a tremendous honor, but it’s not awarded every year, only dates back to 1924, and there’s an upper age limit of 40 so it’s not exactly a direct comparison.  Why, then, no Nobel Prize in mathematics?

~ by quantummoxie on February 5, 2008.