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Ian Stewart, Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at the University of Warwick, writing of theories about the absence of a mathematics Nobel in Professor Stewart’s Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities, noted that there is no evidence to connect the mathematician Mittag-Leffler with Sophie Hess.
“Other suggested reasons for enmity between the two men (Nobel and Mittag-Leffler) also fall apart when confronted with reality,” Stewart told The Indian Express, by email. In his book, he referred to the work of Gording and Hörmander, who had noted that in 1865, when Nobel left Sweden to live in Paris, Mittag-Leffler was a young student, which would mean that there was little opportunity for the two men to interact.
“The truth is that although Mittag-Leffler was a competent mathematician, he wasn’t good enough to have a chance of winning such a prize. He would have been competing against a star-studded field. Nobel might not have known that, but his advisors would surely have told him,” Stewart told The Indian Express.
“In any case, it’s a silly question. Nobel didn’t set up a prize for geology, archaeology, engineering, painting, sculpture, music — or football, for that matter. Not to mention hundreds of other areas of human activity. It would have bankrupted even him to cover everything,” he said.
