Timeline for Why didn't Vladimir Arnold get the Fields Medal in 1974?
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| Jun 17, 2022 at 4:46 | comment | added | Sergei Akbarov | This detail indeed sounds strange and needs clarification: "Pontryagin told Arnold he was instructed not to allow the Fields Medal to be awarded to him." I understand that a lot of bad things are happening in Russia, but this is the case when the intrigue remains unclear. Who was that dark and powerful force that prevented the prize to be awarded to Arnold, even ordered Ponryagin to organize this, and why did this force dislike Arnold so much? | |
| Jun 16, 2022 at 15:23 | history | edited | The Amplitwist | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 29, 2019 at 16:12 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Todd Trimble | ||
| S Jan 4, 2019 at 18:27 | history | suggested | Alex Shpilkin | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
check and edit the translation of the Russian text
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| Jan 5, 2014 at 2:49 | answer | added | TT_ stands with Russia | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jun 15, 2010 at 11:45 | comment | added | Sergei Ivanov | @KConrad: Your translation (in the comment) is correct, and the piece sounds equally weird in Russian. I do not think however that all these details are 100% accurate. Pontryagin in his biography book writes that he was to prevent inviting Arnold to Vancouver, and this sounds more logical to me. | |
| Jun 15, 2010 at 5:35 | comment | added | KConrad | I cleaned up the English a bit, but I'm confused by something. The excerpt "Как Понтрягин сообщил Арнольду, он получил задание не допустить присуждение тому филдсовской медали" means Pontryagin said to Arnold that he (Pontryagin) was ordered not to allow Arnold to get the Fields medal. It sounds really weird: first that Pontryagin would lay out his intentions to Arnold and then that Arnold would consider a meeting on those terms to be "interesting"? I left that part of the translation undisturbed for the most part, but I welcome comments from any native speakers on this point. | |
| Jun 15, 2010 at 5:24 | history | edited | KConrad | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Jun 15, 2010 at 4:41 | answer | added | John Stillwell | timeline score: 21 | |
| Jun 15, 2010 at 4:17 | comment | added | DoubleJay | A Fields Medal is a really nice prize, and most of those who receive it are very deserving, but ultimately it has no more fundamental integrity than any other award - Nobels, Pulitzers, Oscars - all are to an extent political and short-sighted, simply because they are awarded by people. The actual reasons have been explained, but an arbitrary oversight/debate/different perspective on the part of the committee is always a plausible explanation. | |
| Jun 15, 2010 at 4:06 | answer | added | user142 | timeline score: 92 | |
| Jun 9, 2010 at 10:09 | vote | accept | Harun Šiljak | ||
| Jun 5, 2010 at 17:37 | answer | added | Bharadwaj | timeline score: 11 | |
| Jun 5, 2010 at 17:08 | answer | added | VA. | timeline score: 36 | |
| Jun 5, 2010 at 10:27 | comment | added | Dmitri Pavlov | Here is the original source for Uspenski's article: magazines.russ.ru/novyi_mi/2007/12/us9.html Although this story explains how Arnold was deprived of his medal, it still does not explain why he was deprived of it and who ordered Pontryagin to do what he did. | |
| Jun 5, 2010 at 10:25 | comment | added | Victor Protsak | I didn't know it! R.I.P. He was one of the most original mathematicians of the 20th century. | |
| Jun 5, 2010 at 10:14 | history | edited | Harun Šiljak | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
corrected a typo
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| Jun 5, 2010 at 9:58 | answer | added | Charles Matthews | timeline score: 7 | |
| Jun 5, 2010 at 9:07 | history | asked | Harun Šiljak | CC BY-SA 2.5 |