Timeline for Why didn't Vladimir Arnold get the Fields Medal in 1974?
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| Jul 29, 2019 at 16:12 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Todd Trimble | ||
| Jun 6, 2010 at 7:12 | comment | added | Harun Šiljak | Question why there were only two recipients in 1974, after two congresses with more recipients appeared in The Mathematical Intelligencer Vol 1 No 3 (1978) [springerlink.com/content/23260u245q251055/] "No reason for the reduction was given, but presumably the anonymous donor who made the additional awards possible in 1966 and 1970 had done so on a one shot basis rather than endowing them in perpetuity". | |
| Jun 5, 2010 at 22:52 | comment | added | Victor Protsak | ICM 1966 in Moscow was the first time that 4 people were awarded the Fields medal. Before, it had always been 2. I don't know how do they determine the number of recipients | |
| Jun 5, 2010 at 17:37 | history | answered | Bharadwaj | CC BY-SA 2.5 |