Why is there no such thing as a Nobel Prize in mathematics?
Because the rewarded research can absolutely be proved.
Imagine for one moment that scientists that can be corrupted to get the public falsely influenced by obscure research get rewarded with a million bucks (and the mainstream media will get everybody to cheer them):
- the economist who suggest to kolkhoze our lives, sterilize us and pour our neighborhoods with migrants
- the doctor who gets us to be jabbed with experimental DNA altering poison
- the chemist who comes with compounds such as graphene which can be used as much for the good as for the bad
- Obama who bombed innocent people to get his million
- the atom bender who makes invisible computers from rogue molecules
But then, demonstrate something interesting regarding prime or complex numbers and you won’t get as much from the warmongers.
I typed that quite hastily so there might be more relevant examples (except Obama’s) but you get the idea…
I’m not sure I understand. There is a Nobel in physics, which is essentially just applied math. Nobel prices for medicine are often awarded for physiological discoveries.
Nothing in science is good or bad, it’s about how people use it. Nitroglycerin is a bomb in large quantities and a heart medication in small quantities.
Hell, even splitting the atom only promises a lot of energy. It’s an awesome discovery. How will we use the energy from that discovery? That’s a different question, but it doesn’t take away from the discovery itself.
Is it possible the Nobel is just a coordinated popularity campaign? Absolutely! Plenty of worthy people get snubbed, and plenty of people get awarded for doing almost nothing but being famous (like a certain former POTUS).
And there are plenty of Nobel winners that were either wrong, or went on to endorse insane beliefs on the credibility of “having a Nobel.”
Even Nobel himself was basically a weapons manufacturer. The Nobel prize was a private award he established with his own name on it. Nobody assumes there was a very objective or altruistic goal in the establishment of this award.
I don’t think you can necessarily identify an evil plot just by it receiving a mainstream scientific award. That’s no better than blindly accepting or rejecting whatever you see on the news. There’s no reason to give the mainstream academic ceremonies that much control over what you believe.
Also, FWIW, Obama donated his prize money to charity.