Tags:Abel prize, mathematics, measurments in the humanities, Nobel prize, temporology, time measurments and Wolf prize
Abstract:
Ennio De Giorgi (1928 - 1996) – a distinguished Italian mathematician – once noted that mathematics is the key to discovering the secrets of God. In his pioneer research "Psychology of Invention in the Mathematical Field" (1954), Jacques Adamard suggested that mathematical ideas, discoveries, and inventions are but a special case of a creative process in general, be it in sciences, in literature, in art or in technology. In my previous publications it was shown how the temporological approach to the analysis of the life-stories of the Nobel laureates could help us to gain better understanding of Zeitgeist dynamics as well as of the free will limits. Taking into account that Abel Prize is called the mathematics equivalent of a Nobel Prize and assuming that mathematicians can also be considered as a valuable source of information about our cultural development, it was decided that the Abel laureates can constitute an informative group for the further biographical research. The limited size of this group (there are just 22 Abel Laureates) makes them especially attractive for metrological research, because it allows to study in more detail some of the individual characteristics of each laureate and his/her celestial twins. On the one hand, this research compares the different groups of Laureates (including Abel, Wolf, Fields and Nobel Prizes) by the average age at the year of the award and by longevity of the winners. On the other hand, this research continues the systematic exploration of a possible four-element nature of our personalities. To compare the four-element profiles of the different groups of Laureates, it was decided to use the methods which were previously described and tested in Cartography of Emotions (2019). The most impressive result of this analysis is that it allows to detect and outline measurable differences between the Nobel laureates in literature and their mathematical counterparts.
Temporological Analysis of the Distinguished Mathematicians