Knuth Prize Nominations are due Jan 20, 2015.
For info on the prize see here, if you want to nominate someone
go here.
Godel Prize Nominations are due Jan 31, 2015.
For info on the prize see here, if you want to nominate someone
go here
Would you rather:
- Win a Godel Prize
- Win a Knuth Prize
- Have a prize named after you when you are dead
- Have a prize named after you when you are alive
How about you?
The GASARCH prize in typography?
ReplyDeleteTo frame a similar question in another way, let's say I was successful in all the mathematical problems I periodically reattempt to solve: finding a very fast factorisation algorithm, proving the Collatz Conjecture and proving Goldbach's conjecture (preferably all in the same year :-) what would by my chances of getting all four (the generalisation being: what would one have to do to actually get all four ?)
ReplyDeleteProve that P=NP. You'll win #1 and #2 and should have #4 happen but you won't live long after announcing it, leading to #3.
Delete4 is very easy - just take all your savings (or sell house) and organize your prize.
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