Abel Prize
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The Abel Prize is awarded annually by the King of Norway to one or more outstanding mathematicians. It is named after the Norwegian mathematician Niels Henrik Abel and directly modeled after the Nobel
The prize is awarded in the aula of the Domus Media building of the University of Oslo Faculty of Law, where the Nobel Peace Prize was formerly awarded (it is now presented in Oslo City Hall)
Jean Pierre Serre 2003
Isadore Singer 1977
Peter Lax in Tokyo
Andrew Wiles
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Sir Andrew John Wiles is an English mathematician and a Royal Society Research Professor at the University of Oxford, specialising in number theory. He is best known for proving Fermat's Last Theorem,
Abel Prize
…to the theory of nonlinear partial differential equations and its applications to geometric analysis." Louis Nirenberg Courant Institute (NYU) 2016 Andrew Wiles University of Oxford "For his stunning proof of Fermat's Last Theorem by way of the modularity conjecture for semistable elliptic curves, opening a new…
Wiles in 2005
Czech stamp from 2000, celebrating Wiles's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem
Andrew Wiles in front of the statue of Pierre de Fermat in Beaumont-de-Lomagne in 1995, Fermat's birthplace in southern France