I am told that Alfred Nobel's wife had an affair with a mathematician, so that when the inventor of dynamite decided to endow his famous Prize, he specifically stated that mathematicians shouldn't get rewarded.
But the historically more recent invention of the "Nobel" in "economic sciences" shows the ability to find loopholes: mathematicians could be rewarded for their alleged contributions to economics. John Nash, along with John Harsanyi and Reinhardt Selten, seem obvious examples. Maurice Allais and Gerard Debreu are others. Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
