{"id":2333,"date":"2011-03-24T11:00:48","date_gmt":"2011-03-24T00:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/?p=2333"},"modified":"2012-03-21T10:13:20","modified_gmt":"2012-03-20T23:13:20","slug":"and-the-winner-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/culture\/and-the-winner-is\/","title":{"rendered":"And the winner is&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 605px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"   \" title=\"Professor John Milnor\" src=\"http:\/\/www.abelprisen.no\/aim\/dnva\/36\/81\/storage\/file.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"605\" height=\"475\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Abel Prize celebrates outstanding scientific work in the field of mathematics. Image: The Abel Prize\/The Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Abel Prize has been awarded to the famous American mathematician John Milnor (b. 1931). <!--more--><br \/>\nThe Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters chose him, according to the press release, &#8220;for pioneering discoveries in topology, geometry and algebra&#8221;\u009d. Professor Milnor, who is co-director of the Institute for Mathematical Sciences at Stony Brook University in New York, has shaped the mathematical landscape in the last 50 years.<br \/>\nThe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abelprisen.no\" target=\"_blank\">Abel Prize<\/a> was awarded for the first time in June 2003. Previous laureates include:<\/p>\n<p><strong>* <\/strong><strong>Jean-Pierre Serre<\/strong> (2003) &#8220;for playing a key role in shaping the modern form of many parts of mathematics, including topology, algebraic geometry and number theory&#8221;\u009d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>* Sir Michael Atiyah and Isadore M. Singer<\/strong> (2004) &#8220;for their discovery and proof of the index theorem, bringing together topology, geometry and analysis.&#8221;\u009d<\/p>\n<p><strong>* Peter D. Lax<\/strong> (2005) &#8220;for his groundbreaking contributions to the theory and application of partial differential equations and to the computing of their solutions.&#8221;\u009d<\/p>\n<p><strong>* Lennart Carleson<\/strong> (2006) &#8220;for his profound and seminal contributions to harmonic analysis and the theory of smooth dynamical systems.&#8221;\u009d<\/p>\n<p><strong>* Srinivasa S. R. Varadhan<\/strong> (2007) for his fundamental contributions to probability theory and in particular for creating a unified theory of large deviations.&#8221;\u009d<\/p>\n<p><strong>* John Griggs Thompson and Jacques T<\/strong><strong>its<\/strong> (2008) &#8220;for their profound achievement in algebra and in particular for shaping modern group theory.&#8221;\u009d<\/p>\n<p><strong>* Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov<\/strong> (2009) &#8220;for his revolutionary contributions to geometry.&#8221;\u009d<\/p>\n<p><strong>* John Torrence Tate<\/strong> (2010) &#8220;for his vast and lasting impact on the theory of numbers.&#8221;\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Milnor will receive the Abel Prize from His Majesty King Harald at a ceremony in Oslo in May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Abel Prize has been awarded to the famous American mathematician John Milnor (b. 1931).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-science","category-science-update"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2333"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2333"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4404,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2333\/revisions\/4404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}