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When you graduate from being interested in feet.

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Michel Talagrand.

Winner of the Abel Prize, 2024.

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Abel Prize awarded to Dennis P. Sullivan

Dennis Parnell Sullivan, a Distinguished Professor at Stony Brook University and Einstein Chair and Distinguished Professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, has won the 2022 Abel Prize for “groundbreaking contributions to topology in its broadest sense, and in particular its algebraic, geometric and dynamical aspects.”

Among Sullivan’s significant results in topology is his proof of the Adams conjecture, “and in dynamical systems he proved that rational maps have no wandering domains, solving a 60-year-old conjecture,” according to the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, which awarded the prize. “His insistent probing for fundamental understanding, and his capacity to see analogues between diverse areas of mathematics and build bridges between them, has forever changed the field.”

A charismatic and lively member of the mathematics community, Sullivan has found deep connections between a dazzling variety of areas of mathematics.

“Dennis P. Sullivan has repeatedly changed the landscape of topology by introducing new concepts, proving landmark theorems, answering old conjectures and formulating new problems that have driven the field forwards,” says Hans Munthe-Kaas, chair of the Abel Committee. “Sullivan has moved from area to area, seemingly effortlessly, using algebraic, analytic and geometric ideas like a true virtuoso.”

A fellow of the American Mathematical Society, Sullivan has won numerous other awards such as the 2006 Leroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement, the 2010 Wolf Prize in Mathematics and the 2014 Balzan Prize for Mathematics. Read more in the official announcement.

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Pioneers Linking Math and Computer Science Win the Abel Prize

Avi Wigderson and László Lovász won for their work developing complexity theory and graph theory, respectively, and for connecting the two fields.

The 2021 Abel Prize is awarded to László Lovász and Avi Wigderson, “for their foundational contributions to theoretical computer science and discrete mathematics, and their leading role in shaping them into central fields of modern mathematics”.

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A Woman Has Won the ‘Nobel Prize of Math’ for the First Time Ever

Karen Uhlenbeck is the first woman to win the Abel Prize for mathematics.

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Celebrating Abel!

Niels Henrik Abel, born on 5th August 1802, was a Norwegian mathematician who made pioneering contributions in a variety of fields. His most famous single result is the first complete proof demonstrating the impossibility of solving the general quintic equation in radicals. This question was one of the outstanding open problems of his day, and had been unresolved for 250 years.  He was also an innovator in the field of elliptic functions, discoverer of Abelian functions. Regarding Abel, the French mathematician Charles Hermite said: "Abel has left mathematicians enough to keep them busy for five hundred years." And, lets face it, he didn't look bad ;)

The Abel Prize is a Norwegian prize awarded annually by the King of Norway to one or more outstanding mathematicians. It is named after Norwegian mathematician Niels Henrik Abel (1802–1829) and directly modeled after the Nobel Prizes. It comes with a monetary award of 6 million Norwegian Kroner (NOK) (€620,000 or $700,000).

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Karen Uhlenbeck receives the Abel Prize 2019 for her fundamental work in geometric analysis and gauge theory, which has dramatically changed the mathematical landscape. Her theories have revolutionized our understanding of minimal surfaces, such as those formed by soap bubbles, and more general minimization problems in higher dimensions.

Hans Munthe-Kaas, Chair of the Abel Committee, The Abel Prize 2019, awarded to Karen Uhlenbeck, first woman to win the Abel Prize

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Karen Uhlenbeck is first woman to win prestigious maths Abel prize

Karen Uhlenbeck has won the Abel prize, often called the Nobel prize of mathematics, for work that laid the foundations for major breakthroughs in theoretical physics

Mathematician Karen Uhlenbeck has become the first woman to win the Abel prize, sometimes called the Nobel prize of mathematics. She has been awarded the 6 million Norwegian kroner ($700,000) prize for her work in the fields of gauge theory and geometric analysis, which have been credited with far-reaching impact in both mathematics and physics.

Gauge theory underpins much of modern theoretical physics, and is integral to cutting-edge research in particle physics, general relativity and string theory. Her work laid the foundations for one of the major milestones of 20th–century physics, the unification of two of the four fundamental forces of nature: electromagnetism and the weak nuclear force.

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