Why no Nobel Prize in Mathematics ?

          Nobel Prizes are given to people who have excelled in certain areas by sufficiently important contributions to society. It is awarded annually on December 10 ( the date on which Alfred Nobel died ) in Stockholm and the fields that are awarded are Physics, Chemistry, Medicine , Literature , Peace and Economics. So , as you can see, there is Nobel Prize of Mathematics .... why? .

          There are a couple of legends to explain this.One of them says that when Nobel thought in prizes, he asked advice from specialists who might deserve each .
In the category of Mathematics told that Mittag - Leffler , Swedish mathematician , would be suitable to receive it. But Nobel took wrong with him , and declined to give award at this branch for not giving it to him . And the other is even more pink : it is said that such Mittag - Leffler had an affair with the wife of Nobel and thus not established the prize for this science .

          But they are just that : legends. There is no record that had references from this Nobel Swedish mathematician , in fact it seems that barely knew , so there might be wrong with him. The other story is easily removed : Nobel never married .

          The reason why there is no Nobel Prize in Mathematics is that Nobel did not consider this science as important for life on the practicality and elected branches awards did consider important to the advancement of society . As we all know obviously wrong in this reasoning as mathematics are essential in our life. But Nobel did not consider that.

           Yet this has been and mathematicians who have been awarded the Nobel Prize in any category in which they are delivered. A couple of examples are John Forbes Nash, Nobel laureate in economics and José Echegaray , Literature Nobel Prize .

         But mathematicians are not exempt from specific awards for us. As I said in this post there is a prize , say, equivalent to the Nobel designed to mathematicians the Fields Medal , which is awarded every four years to one or more outstanding mathematicians in this period that would meet the condition of not exceeding 40 years old. It is the highest honor a mathematician can receive and next, as I said , will Grigori Perelman .