Abel prize

The Abel Prize 2024 has been awarded to Michel Talagrand for ground breaking contributions to probability theory and functional analysis.

In this special podcast we look back on this remarkable mathematical moment with Andrew Wiles, Jack Thorne and Tom Körner, and how it opened new doors onto the future of mathematics.

Andrew Wiles's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem solved a centuries-old problem by opening a door onto the future of mathematics.

This year's Abel Prize goes to Luis A. Caffarelli for a body of work on the maths of change.

Find out more about one of the highest honours in maths.

This year's Abel Prize goes to the "true virtuoso" Dennis Sullivan.

László Lovász has won one half of the Abel Prize 2021 for fundamental contributions to theoretical computer science and discrete maths.

You are faced with a difficult problem, it is not easily solved. How do you feel? Well, if you are Avi Wigderson, one of the winners of the 2021 Abel Prize, you are very happy!

This year's Abel Prize has been awarded to Hillel Furstenberg and Gregory Margulis.

Karen Keskulla Uhlenbeck has been awarded the Abel Prize 2019!

Robert Langlands wins for his "visionary program".

This year's Abel Prize has been awarded to Yves Meyer for the development of an incredibly powerful mathematical tool.