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Awarded to four mathematicians every four years by the International Conference of Mathematicians (ICM), the Fields Medal is considered the mathematical equivalent of the Nobel Prize...
Although many people consider the Fields medal the mathematical equivalent of the Nobel Prize, the purpose of the two awards is very different...
...roughly a century ago. But why is there so little hard numerical evidence that this is happening? In particular, if computers are sparking a new industrial revolution, why have the numbers that measure the growth in output per labor-hour of the U.S. economy been so persistently anemic? As Nobel prizewinner Robert Solow summarized in what economists now call the Solow Paradox, computers are everywhere--except in the productivity statistics...
Also in absentia was Dolores Kreiger, ProfessorEmerita at New York University, who received theScience Education Ig Nobel for "demonstrating themerits of therapeutic touch," a method by which acaretaker manipulates the energy fields of ailingpatients by carefully avoiding physical contactwith patients...
After all the winners had been announced, thefour Nobel laureates auctioned off personal itemssuch as chewed bubble gum, supermarket shoppinglists and junk mail. Glashow's cigar butts fetchedthe highest...