The Abel Prize is an international prize presented annually by the King of Norway to one or more outstanding mathematicians. A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study and research is the field of Mathematics. The prize is named after Norwegian mathematician Niels Henrik Abel (1802–1829). Norwegians See also History of Norway and Demography of Norway. Niels Henrik Abel (August 5 1802 &ndash April 6 1829 was a noted Norwegian Mathematician who proved the impossibility of solving the Quintic equation It has been described as the "mathematician's Nobel" prize by Keith Devlin,[1] and is among the most prestigious awards in mathematics. Keith J Devlin is an English Mathematician and Writer. He currently is Executive Director of Stanford University 's Center for the Study It comes with a monetary award, which in 2008 was US$1. The United States dollar ( sign: $; code: USD) is the unit of Currency of the United States; it has also been 2 million.
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 Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters ( Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi) was founded in Christiania in 1857 to "advance science and scholarship in Norway 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. The United States dollar ( sign: $; code: USD) is the unit of Currency of the United States; it has also been The Nobel Prize (Nobelpriset (Nobelprisen is a Swedish prize established in the 1895 will of Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel; it was first awarded in Peace, Literature "Sverige" redirects here For other uses see Sweden (disambiguation and Sverige (disambiguation. Norway ( Norwegian: Norge ( Bokmål) or Noreg ( Nynorsk) officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Constitutional Mathematics is the body of Knowledge and Academic discipline that studies such concepts as Quantity, Structure, Space and Norway gave the prize an initial funding of NOK 200,000,000 (about $23,000,000 USD) in 2001. The krone ( sign: kr; code: NOK) is the Currency of Norway. The plural form is kroner. The United States dollar ( sign: $; code: USD) is the unit of Currency of the United States; it has also been The prize is an attempt at creating publicity for mathematics, making the science more prestigious, especially for young people.
The prize board has also established an Abel symposium, administered by the Norwegian Mathematics Society. The Norwegian mathematical Society ( Norsk matematisk forening) is a professional society for mathematics
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History
The prize was first proposed to be part of the 1902 celebration of 100th anniversary of Abel's birth. [2] In 1899, shortly before his death, Sophus Lie proposed establishing an Abel Prize when he learned that Alfred Nobel's plans for annual prizes, made known in 1897, would not include a prize in mathematics. Marius Sophus Lie (liː as "Lee" ( 17 December 1842 - 18 February 1899) was a Norwegian -born Mathematician. (21 October 1833 Stockholm, Sweden – 10 December 1896 Sanremo, Italy) was a Swedish chemist engineer innovator armaments manufacturer King Oscar II was willing to finance a mathematics prize in Abel's name, and the mathematicians Ludwig Sylow and Carl Størmer drew up statutes and rules for the proposed prize. Early life At his birth in Stockholm Oscar Frederik was created Duke of Östergötland. Peter Ludwig Mejdell Sylow ( 12 December 1832 &ndash 7 September 1918) was a Norwegian Mathematician, who proved foundational Fredrik Carl Mülertz Størmer ( September 3, 1874 – August 13, 1957) was a Norwegian Mathematician and Physicist However, Lie's influence waned after his death, and the dissolution of the Union between Sweden and Norway in 1905 ended the first attempt to create the Abel Prize. The Union between Sweden and Norway (Unionen mellan Sverige och Norge Unionen mellom Norge og Sverige or the Swedish-Norwegian Kingdom was the union of the kingdoms of
In 2001, after interest in the prize had risen, a working group was formed to develop a proposal, which was presented to the prime minister of Norway in May. In August 2001, the Norwegian government announced that the prize would be awarded beginning in 2002, the two-hundredth anniversary of Abel's birth. An anniversary (from the Latin anniversarius, from the words for year and to turn meaning (returning yearly known in English since c.
Laureates
| Year | Laureate(s) | Nationality | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | Jean-Pierre Serre |  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 |
 United Kingdom United States |
“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 |  Hungary / United States |
“for his groundbreaking contributions to the theory and application of partial differential equations and to the computation of their solutions” |
| 2006 | Lennart Carleson |  Sweden |
“for his profound and seminal contributions to harmonic analysis and the theory of smooth dynamical systems” |
| 2007 | S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan |  India / United States |
“for his fundamental contributions to probability theory and in particular for creating a unified theory of large deviation” |
| 2008 | John G. Thompson Jacques Tits |
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“for their profound achievements in algebra and in particular for shaping modern group theory” |
See also
- Fields Medal
- List of prizes, medals, and awards – mathematics
- Nemmers Prize in Mathematics
- Nevanlinna Prize
- Schock Prize
- Wolf Prize in Mathematics
References
- ^ Abel Prize Awarded: The Mathematicians' Nobel, maa. This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. Topology ( Greek topos, "place" and logos, "study" is the branch of Mathematics that studies the properties of Algebraic geometry is a branch of Mathematics which as the name suggests combines techniques of Abstract algebra, especially Commutative algebra, with Number theory is the branch of Pure mathematics concerned with the properties of Numbers in general and Integers in particular as well as the wider classes Sir Michael Francis Atiyah, OM, FRS, FRSE (b April 22, 1929) is a British Mathematician, and one of the Isadore Manuel Singer (born April 24 1924 is an Institute Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located The United States of America —commonly referred to as the In the Mathematics of Manifolds and Differential operators the Atiyah–Singer index theorem states that for an elliptic differential operator Topology ( Greek topos, "place" and logos, "study" is the branch of Mathematics that studies the properties of Geometry ( Greek γεωμετρία; geo = earth metria = measure is a part of Mathematics concerned with questions of size shape and relative position Analysis has its beginnings in the rigorous formulation of Calculus. Theoretical physics employs Mathematical models and Abstractions of Physics in an attempt to explain experimental data taken of the natural world Peter David Lax (born May 1, 1926 in Budapest, Hungary) is a Mathematician working in the areas of pure and applied Mathematics Hungary (Magyarország 'mɔɟɔrorsaːg) officially in English the Republic of Hungary ( Magyar Köztársaság, literally Magyar (Hungarian Republic The United States of America —commonly referred to as the In Mathematics, partial differential equations ( PDE) are a type of Differential equation, i Lennart Axel Edvard Carleson (born March 18, 1928) is a Swedish mathematician known as a leader in the field of Harmonic analysis. "Sverige" redirects here For other uses see Sweden (disambiguation and Sverige (disambiguation. Harmonic analysis is the branch of Mathematics that studies the representation of functions or signals as the superposition of basic Waves It investigates and generalizes The dynamical system concept is a mathematical Formalization for any fixed "rule" which describes the Time dependence of a point's position Sathamangalam Ranga Iyengar Srinivasa Varadhan is an Indian American Probabilist. India, officially the Republic of India (भारत गणराज्य inc-Latn Bhārat Gaṇarājya; see also other Indian languages) is a country The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Probability theory is the branch of Mathematics concerned with analysis of random phenomena In Probability Theory, the Large Deviations Theory concerns the asymptotic behaviour of remote tails of sequences of probability distributions John Griggs Thompson (born October 13 1932 in Ottawa Kansas, USA) is a Mathematician noted for his work in the field of Finite Jacques Tits (born August 12, 1930 in Uccle) is a French (and formerly Belgian) Mathematician. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the The Kingdom of Belgium is a Country in northwest Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts its headquarters as well as those This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. Algebra is a branch of Mathematics concerning the study of structure, relation, and Quantity. Group theory is a mathematical discipline the part of Abstract algebra that studies the Algebraic structures known as groups. The Fields Medal is a prize awarded to two three or four Mathematicians not over 40 years of age at each International Congress of the International Mathematical A list of famous Prizes Medals and Awards including cups trophies, Bowls Badges State decorations etc The Frederic Esser Nemmers Prize in Mathematics is awarded biennially from Northwestern University. The Rolf Nevanlinna Prize is awarded once every 4 years at the International Congress of Mathematicians, for outstanding contributions in Mathematical Aspects of Information The Rolf Schock Prizes were established and endowed by bequeath of philosopher and artist Rolf Schock (1933-1986 org, April 2004.
- ^ History of the Abel Prize
External links
- The Abel Prize official web site
- The Abel Symposium web site
- Eric W. Weisstein, Abel Prize at MathWorld. Eric W Weisstein (born March 18, 1969, in Bloomington Indiana) is an Encyclopedist who created and maintains MathWorld MathWorld is an online Mathematics reference work created and largely written by Eric W
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