If you haven't seen it already, Paul Krugman's Nobel Prize lecture is quite good.
Today's useless fact: the story that there is no Nobel Prize in mathematics because Alfred Nobel's wife had an affair with a mathematician is a hoax.
Neil Sinhababu and Nicholas Beaudrot's political blog
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So why isn't there a Nobel in mathematics? Not just why wasn't there one at the beginning, but why hasn't one been added on over the years? Econ didn't originally have a Nobel, after all.
The Fields Medal just isn't the same.
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