tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8706557382895216627.post3458371997806361278..comments2023-08-24T06:04:08.158-04:00Comments on Jew or Not Jew Unplugged: Profile: Benoit MandelbrotZevhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16245679359526388191noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8706557382895216627.post-64199164449678606082013-11-22T15:37:52.483-05:002013-11-22T15:37:52.483-05:00"So why the heck is there no Nobel in mathema..."So why the heck is there no Nobel in mathematics?"<br /><br />http://www.snopes.com/science/nobel.asp<br /><br />"Oh sure, he received numerous other awards"<br /><br />Though none of the big maths ones (Field, Abel, Wolf). Oddly enough, he won the Wolf Prize in Physics. Nobody knows why.<br /><br />"K 5"<br /><br />While he made very pretty pictures, he was not always popular amongst other mathematicians. See for example http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=mandelbrot-set-1990-horgan.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com