Abel Prize
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The Abel Prize is awarded annually by the King of Norway to outstanding mathematicians. In 2001 the government of Norway announced that the bicentennial of Norwegian mathematician Niels Henrik Abel's birth (which was 1802) would mark the commencement of a new prize for mathematicians, named after Abel.
The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters annually declares the winner of the Abel Prize after selection by a committee of five international mathematicians. The amount of money that comes with the prize is usually close to one million USD, similar to the Nobel Prize, which is awarded in Sweden and Norway and excludes mathematics. Norway gave the prize an initial funding of NOK 200,000,000 (about $23,000,000 USD) in 2001. The prize is an attempt at creating publicity for mathematics, making the science more prestigious, especially for young people.
In April 2003, it was announced that Jean-Pierre Serre was the first candidate to win the prize, and the following June it was awarded.
Laureates
- 2005: Peter D. Lax (Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University)
"for his groundbreaking contributions to the theory and application of partial differential equations and to the computation of their solutions". - 2004: Michael F. Atiyah (University of Edinburgh) and Isadore M. Singer (MIT)
"for their discovery and proof of the index theorem, bringing together topology, geometry and analysis, and their outstanding role in building new bridges between mathematics and theoretical physics". - 2003: Jean-Pierre Serre (Collège de France)
"for playing a key role in shaping the modern form of many parts of mathematics, including topology, algebraic geometry and number theory".
See also
External link
- The Abel Prize official web site (http://www.abelprisen.no/en/)cs:Abelova cena
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