<div class="bbWrapper"><b>Ynt: 2006 Nobel Edebiyat Ödülü</b><br />
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Konuyu nette biraz araştırdım ve aşağıdaki yazıyı buldum, biraz uzun ve İngilizce ama kısaca der ki;<br />
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Nobel evli olmadığı için karısının kendisi aldatması da sözkonusu olamaz.<br />
O tarihlerde İsveç'te zaten matematik dalında verilen bir ödül olduğu için Nobel bu alana girmek istememiş olabilir.<br />
Ayrıca Nobel, matematikle ilgili değildi, hatta teorik alanlarla genel olarak pek ilgili değildi, ödüllerin insanlığa pratik-uygulanabilir yararlar sağlayacak buluş ve keşifler yapanlara verilmesinden yanaydı. (zaten bundan ötürü fizik nobelleri genelde teoriden çok deneysel yönü ağırlıklı olan çalışmalara verilir)<br />
Ve son olarak, Nobel gibi tüm hayatını ve hayallerini insanlık ve bilim üzerine kurmuş biri dandik bir kişisel çatışma uğruna, bu kadar emek verdiği eserine leke düşürür mü? <br />
Ama tabii ki içinde aşk-ihanet-kadın geçen bir hikaye çok daha eğlenceli olduğu için ortalıkta dolaşmaya devam edecektir. <br />
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Yazının tamamını görüşlerinize sunuyorum:<br />
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<span style="color: orange">Why is there no Nobel in mathematics?<br />
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Nobel prizes were created by the will of Alfred Nobel, a notable<br />
Swedish chemist.<br />
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One of the most common --and unfounded-- reasons as to why Nobel<br />
decided against a Nobel prize in math is that [a woman he proposed<br />
to/his wife/his mistress] [rejected him because of/cheated him with] a<br />
famous mathematician. Gosta Mittag-Leffler is often claimed to be the<br />
guilty party.<br />
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There is no historical evidence to support the story.<br />
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For one, Mr. Nobel was never married.<br />
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There are more credible reasons as to why there is no Nobel prize in<br />
math. Chiefly among them is simply the fact he didn't care much for<br />
mathematics, and that it was not considered a practical science from<br />
which humanity could benefit (a chief purpose for creating the Nobel<br />
Foundation).<br />
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Further, at the time there existed already a well known Scandinavian<br />
prize for mathematicians. If Nobel knew about this prize he may have<br />
felt less compelled to add a competing prize for mathematicians in his<br />
will.<br />
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[...] As professor ordinarius in Stockholm, Mittag-Leffler began a<br />
30-year career of vigorous mathematical activity. In 1882 he<br />
founded the Acta Mathematica, which a century later is still one of<br />
the world's leading mathematical journals. Through his influence in<br />
Stockholm he persuaded King Oscar II to endow prize competitions<br />
and honor various distinguished mathematicians all over Europe.<br />
Hermite, Bertrand, Weierstrass, and Poincare were among those<br />
honored by the King. [...]<br />
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Source: "The Mathematics of Sonya Kovalevskaya" by Roger Cooke<br />
(Springer-Verlag, New York etc., 1984, II.5.2, p. 90-91:<br />
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Here are some relevant facts:<br />
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* Nobel never married, hence no ``wife''. (He did have a mistress, a<br />
Viennese woman named Sophie Hess.)<br />
* Gosta Mittag-Leffler was an important mathematician in Sweden in<br />
the late 19th-early 20th century. He was the founder of the<br />
journal Acta Mathematica, played an important role in helping the<br />
career of Sonya Kovalevskaya, and was eventually head of the<br />
Stockholm Hogskola, the precursor to Stockholms Universitet.<br />
However, it seems highly unlikely that he would have been a<br />
leading candidate for an early Nobel Prize in mathematics, had<br />
there been one -- there were guys like Poincare and Hilbert<br />
around, after all.<br />
* There is no evidence that Mittag-Leffler had much contact with<br />
Alfred Nobel (who resided in Paris during the latter part of his<br />
life), still less that there was animosity between them for<br />
whatever reason. To the contrary, towards the end of Nobel's life<br />
Mittag-Leffler was engaged in ``diplomatic'' negotiations to try<br />
to persuade Nobel to designate a substantial part of his fortune<br />
to the Hogskola. It seems hardly likely that he would have<br />
undertaken this if there was prior bad blood between them.<br />
Although initially Nobel seems to have intended to do this,<br />
eventually he came up with the Nobel Prize idea -- much to the<br />
disappointment of the Hogskola, not to mention Nobel's relatives<br />
and Fraulein Hess.<br />
* According to the very interesting study by Elisabeth Crawford,<br />
``The Beginnings of the Nobel Institution'', Cambridge Univ.<br />
Press, 1984, pages 52-53:<br />
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Although it is not known how those in responsible positions at the<br />
Hogskola came to believe that a large bequest was forthcoming, this<br />
indeed was the expectation, and the disappointment was keen when it<br />
was announced early in 1897 that the Hogskola had been left out of<br />
Nobel's final will in 1895. Recriminations followed, with both<br />
Pettersson and Arrhenius [academic rivals of Mittag-Leffler in the<br />
administration of the Hogskola] letting it be known that Nobel's<br />
dislike for Mittag-Leffler had brought about what Pettersson termed<br />
the `Nobel Flop'. This is only of interest because it may have<br />
contributed to the myth that Nobel had planned to institute a prize<br />
in mathematics but had refrained because of his antipathy to<br />
Mittag-Leffler or --in another version of the same story-- because<br />
of their rivalry for the affections of a woman....<br />
However, Sister Mary Thomas a Kempis discovered a letter by R. C.<br />
Archibald in the archives of Brown University and discussed its<br />
contents in "The Mathematics Teacher" (1966, pp.667-668).<br />
Archibald had visited Mittag-Leffler and, on his report, it would<br />
seem that M-L *believed* that the absence of a Nobel Prize in<br />
mathematics was due to an estrangement between the two men. (This<br />
at least is the natural reading, but not the only possible one.)<br />
* A final speculation concerning the psychological element. Would<br />
Nobel, sitting down to draw up his testament, presumably in a mood<br />
of great benevolence to mankind, have allowed a mere personal<br />
grudge to distort his idealistic plans for the monument he would<br />
leave behind?<br />
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Nobel, an inventor and industrialist, did not create a prize in<br />
mathematics simply because he was not particularly interested in<br />
mathematics or theoretical science. His will speaks of prizes for<br />
those ``inventions or discoveries'' of greatest practical benefit to<br />
mankind. (Probably as a result of this language, the physics prize has<br />
been awarded for experimental work much more often than for advances<br />
in theory.)<br />
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However, the story of some rivalry over a woman is obviously much more<br />
amusing, and that's why it will probably continue to be repeated.<br />
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References<br />
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Mathematical Intelligencer, vol. 7 (3), 1985, p. 74.<br />
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The Beginnings of the Nobel Institution. Elisabeth Crawford. Cambridge<br />
Univ. Press, 1984.</span></div>