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b. He was the founder of the journal ‘Acta Mathematica’, played an important role in helping the career of Sonya Kovalevskaya, and was eventually head of the Stockholm Hogskola, the precursor to Stockholm University.
c. It seems hardly likely that he would have undertaken this if there was prior bad blood between them.
d. At the time there existed already a well known Scandinavian prize for mathematicians.
e. The reason for this conspicuous omission has been subject of extensivespeculations, some of which are discussed below.
f. So, apart from Arrhenius and Pettersson’s accusations, the written Archibalds testimony that Mittag-Leffler at least believed that he and Nobel were estranged is the only historical evidence on the matter.
g. If there hadbeen one - there were guys like Poincare and Hilbert around, after all.
h. His will speaks of prizes for those ‘inventions or discoveries’ of greatest practical benefit to mankind.
i. Pettersson and Arrhenius, academic rivals of Mittag-Leffler in the administration of theHogskola, let it be known that Nobel's dislike for Mittag-Leffler had brought about what Pettersson called the `Nobel Flop'.
j. There are more credible reasons as to why there is no Nobel Prize in mathematics.
II. For (1-3) choose T if the statement is true according to the text, Fif it is false or NGif the information is not givenin the text
1. There are no obvious facts and signs showing that Nobel and Mittag-Leffler hated each other.
2. Nobel’s relatives supported the idea of creating Nobel prizes.
3. Nobel may have left mathematicians out of his will because he didn’t particularly like Mathematics.
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