News from the world of maths: Abel Prize 2010 goes to John T. Tate

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News from the world of maths: Abel Prize 2010 goes to John T. Tate

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

The Abel Prize 2010 has been awarded to John T. Tate from the University of Texas at Austin "for his vast and lasting impact on the theory of numbers". The honour puts Tate on a par with a Nobel Prize winner. In fact, the Abel Prize was established to make up for the fact that there is no Nobel Prize in mathematics.

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