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Saturday, March 24, 2012

Abel Prize


The Abel Prize is an international prize presented annually by the King of Norway to one or more outstanding Mathematicians. The prize is named after Norwegian Mathematician Niels Henrik Abel (1802–1829). It has often been described as the'' Mathematician's Nobel Prize''  and is among the most prestigious awards in mathematics. It comes with a monetary award of 6 Million Kroner(currency of Norway)which is approx. 1.06 million US Dollars.
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 committee is headed by Ragni Piene .
The International Mathematical Union and the European Mathematical Society  nominate members of the Abel Committee .
In August 2001, the Norwegian government announced that the prize would be awarded beginning in 2002, the 200th Anniversary of Abel's birth. The first prize was actually awarded in 2003.

Hungarian Mathematician Endre Szemerédi gets 2012 Abel Prize

 List of Winners from 2003

Year
Winner
Institution
Nationality
Citation
2003
Jean Pierre Serre
College de France
France
for playing a key role in shaping the modern form of many parts of mathematics, including topology, algebraic geometry and number theory
2004
Michael F Atiyah
Isadore M Singer
University of Edinburg
MIT
UK
USA
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
2005
Peter D Lax
Courant Institue NYU
Hungary/USA
for his groundbreaking contributions to the theory and application of partial differential equations and to the computation of their solutions
2006
Lennart Carleson
Kungliga Tekniska
Hogskolan
Sweden
for his profound and seminal contributions to harmonic analysis and the theory of smooth dynamical systems”
2007
S R Srinivasa Vardhan

Courant Institute NYU

India/USA
for his fundamental contributions to Probability Theory and in particular for creating a unified Theory of Large  Deviation
2008
John G Thompson
Jacques Tits
University of Florida
College de France
USA
Belgium/France
for their profound achievements in Algebra and in particular for shaping modern Group Theory
2009
Mikhail Gromov
IHES
Courant Institute NYU
Russia/France
for his revolutionary contributions to geometry
2010
John T Tate
UT Austin
USA
for his vast and lasting impact on the Theory of Numbers
2011
John Milnor
Stony Brook University
USA
for pioneering discoveries in topology, geometry and algebra
2012
Endre Szemerédi

Alfred Renyi Institue
And Rutgers University
Hungary
for his fundamental contributions to discrete mathematics and theoretical computer science
and in recognition of the profound and lasting impact of these contributions on additive number theory and ergodic theory





















The winner of the prestigious Abel Prize of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters for the year 2012 is 72-year-old Hungarian mathematician Endre Szemerédi of the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, and Department of Computer Science, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in the United States.
The announcement was made by the President of the Norwegian Academy in Oslo on Tuesday March 20,2012 and the award is being given “for his fundamental contributions to discrete mathematics and theoretical computer science, and in recognition of the profound and lasting impact of these contributions on additive number theory and ergodic theory.”
Discrete mathematics is the study of structures such as graphs, sequences, permutations and geometric configurations and it is the mathematics of such structures that forms the foundation of theoretical computer science and information theory.

 

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