The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has awarded the Abel Prize for 2021 to Avi Wigderson, a 1983 Ph.D. graduate of Princeton in electrical engineering and computer science, now on the faculty ...

The Abel Prize was also awarded to Princeton University mathematician John Forbes Nash Jr., the brilliant-but-troubled subject of the film “A Beautiful Mind.” ...

Mathematician and theoretical computer scientist Avi Wigderson GS ’83 was awarded the 2021 Abel Prize, a prestigious honor awarded by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters that is widely ...

American Karen Uhlenbeck has won the 2019 Abel prize, often referred to as "math's Nobel" prize. The accomplished mathematician is the first woman in history to earn the distinction from the ...

Acclaimed mathematician Dennis Parnell Sullivan GS ’66 was awarded the 2022 Abel Prize. One of the highest honors that can be bestowed upon a research mathematician, the honor is considered the ...

The Abel Prize is awarded by the King of Norway to mathematicians who have greatly influenced their field, and includes a cash award of 6 million Norwegian kroner (about $700,000). The first prize ...

Langlands will receive 6 million Norwegian krone (approximately $775,000) from Norway's King Harald V in a ceremony in Oslo, Norway, on May 22, according to the Abel Prize organizers. Originally ...

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 ...

The Abel Prize is widely considered equivalent to a Nobel prize for mathematics. Uhlenbeck receives Abel Prize for geometric analysis . Karen Uhlenbeck won the 2019 Abel Prize “for her pioneering ...

Abel Prize for 2022 Goes to New York Mathematician Dennis P. Sullivan of Stony Brook University and the City University Graduate Center won an award that is the equivalent of the Nobel Prize for math.

The Abel Prize award ceremony, which was to be held in Oslo on May 19, has been postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic. Kenneth Chang has been at The Times since 2000, writing about physics ...