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Michel Talagrand Wins Abel Prize for Work Wrangling Randomness

Jordana Cepelewicz — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 11:00:17 +0000

Random processes take place all around us. It rains one day but not the next; stocks and bonds gain and lose value; traffic jams coalesce and disappear. Because they’re governed by numerous factors that interact with one another in complicated ways, it’s impossible to predict the exact behavior of such systems. Instead, we think about them in terms of probabilities...

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Dennis Sullivan, Uniter of Topology and Chaos, Wins the Abel Prize

Jordana Cepelewicz — Wed, 23 Mar 2022 11:53:50 +0000

Dennis Sullivan has always been driven by mathematical insights that are general and beautiful and have the power to amaze — “something that grabs you, like a piece of music,” he said. An encounter with one such theorem during his second year of college spurred him to switch his major from chemical engineering to mathematics; other encounters like it would later inspire him to spend years or even...

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Pioneers Linking Math and Computer Science Win the Abel Prize

Kevin Hartnett — Wed, 17 Mar 2021 11:00:14 +0000

When Avi Wigderson and László Lovász began their careers in the 1970s, theoretical computer science and pure mathematics were almost entirely separate disciplines. Today, they’ve grown so close it’s hard to find the line between them. For their many fundamental contributions to both fields, and for their work drawing them together, today Lovász and Wigderson were awarded the Abel Prize...

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Karen Uhlenbeck, Uniter of Geometry and Analysis, Wins Abel Prize

Erica Klarreich — Tue, 19 Mar 2019 11:00:30 +0000

Karen Uhlenbeck, whose seminal work helped launch an entire field of mathematics, was awarded the Abel Prize today in an announcement made from Oslo. The prize, created by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters in 2003, is widely viewed as the mathematics equivalent of a Nobel Prize. Uhlenbeck’s work has “led to some of the most dramatic advances in mathematics in the last 40 years...

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Robert Langlands, Mathematical Visionary, Wins the Abel Prize

Kevin Hartnett — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 11:00:16 +0000

Robert Langlands, who developed one of the most original insights of 20th-century mathematics, was named the winner of the 2018 Abel Prize at a ceremony in Norway this morning. The prize, which is modeled on the Nobel, is one of the highest honors in mathematics. Langlands, 81, an emeritus professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, is the progenitor of the “Langlands...

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