Claim: No Nobel Prize is awarded for mathematics because a mathematician was carrying on an affair with Alfred Nobel's wife.

声称：诺贝尔奖项中没有数学奖，因为阿尔弗雷德·诺贝尔的妻子与一位数学家有外遇。

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Sweden's monarch Oscar II, at the urging of Mittag-Leffler himself, had already endowed a prize for mathematics.

瑞典国王奥斯卡二世在米塔格·莱弗勒本人的强烈要求下，已经设立了数学奖。

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In the century since the Nobel Foundation was established, many have speculated on the reasons why Alfred Nobel did not provide for a prize to be awarded for achievement in the field of mathematics.

自从诺贝尔基金会成立以后，很多人对阿尔弗雷德·诺贝尔没有提供为数学领域的成就设立奖项展开猜测。

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Mr Weil's advances in algebraic geometry and number theory which in 1994 helped him win the equivalent of the Nobel prize in mathematics, the Kyoto prize in basic science are so abstruse they are inaccessible to the layman.

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Dr Irwing told The Times the differences "may go some way to explaining the greater numbers of men achieving distinctions of various kinds, such as chess grandmasters, Fields medallists for mathematics, Nobel prize-winners and the like".

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Ms. TATIANA DIVENS (Nobel Enthusiast and Freelance Writer): The chances of the West picking up a Nobel Prize in Peace are up there with the fact that I will get the Nobel Prize in mathematics.

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