Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Let's start with the real possibility. Nobel believes that mathematics is just a tool. Is this possibility justified? Obviously, there are many. In the Nobel era, the application of mathematics in the field of science was not as extensive as it is now, and the help of mathematics in changing the world was far less than it is now.
At that time, there was a general perception that mathematics was just a tool. It is difficult for people to combine complex mathematical knowledge with biology, geography, chemistry and other disciplines and apply mathematical knowledge to these fields. It was not until the advent of computers that all this was improved.
Tu Youyou won the Nobel Prize.
With the emergence of computers and the improvement of various disciplines, general mathematical knowledge has been difficult to meet the needs of theory and practice. In addition, the appearance of computers makes it easier for others to use all kinds of mathematical knowledge, and mathematics has changed from a tool to the basis of modern science.
All subjects are inseparable from mathematics. Mathematics is no longer a tool, but the key to truth. Maybe your vision, your hearing and even your perception will deceive you, but math won't. In the world of mathematics, there are no lies, and truth goes with you.
Obama won the Nobel Prize.
Let's talk about the second possibility first. I think this may be the revenge of the winner of the mathematics prize for Nobel's failure to set up the Nobel Prize in Mathematics. It's a mockery. At this time, the honest man who had just been buried and was still hot was dug up and talked.
"Did we honestly dig your ancestral grave?" Is there an effect similar to "our math prize won the Nobel Prize"? Since honest people will say, "Did we honest people dig your ancestral grave?" Then it is not surprising that mathematicians will say after being targeted that "Nobel did not set up the Nobel Prize in Mathematics because mathematicians won the Nobel Prize".