On: Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to John Hopfield an...

[lucasban]

There isn’t a Nobel prize for mathematics. There is the Fields medal but it is different, and not handled by the same organization.

[gweinberg → lucasban]

True, but that's not a very good reason for giving a Nobel Prize in Physics to something that isn't physics. I think the standard way of giving a Nobel Prize to mathematicians is to call it economics.