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Letter: Nobel for Mathematics

Published 28 June 2003

From C. Southern

A proper recognition of mathematics in the Nobel prizes could easily be achieved if the Norwegian parliament passed a law to modify the rules of the Nobel Foundation. This could add the Abel prize fund to the Nobel fund and award a Nobel prize for mathematics (7 June, p 12).

There are many precedents worldwide for a testator’s instructions being modified after death, without any implied criticism of the testator, leading to well-accepted improvements to the original terms of the will.

Woking, Surrey, UK

Issue no. 2401 published 28 June 2003

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