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The Abel Prize 2022: Dennis Sullivan
This year's Abel Prize goes to the "true virtuoso" Dennis Sullivan.
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László Lovász: Working mathematical miracles
László Lovász has won one half of the Abel Prize 2021 for fundamental contributions to theoretical computer science and discrete maths.
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Avi Wigderson: "It's good to have hard problems"
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!
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The Abel Prize 2020
This year's Abel Prize has been awarded to Hillel Furstenberg and Gregory Margulis.
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The Abel Prize 2019
Karen Keskulla Uhlenbeck has been awarded the Abel Prize 2019!
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Abel Prize 2018: the power of asking good questions
Robert Langlands wins for his "visionary program".
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Wavelets catch Abel Prize
This year's Abel Prize has been awarded to Yves Meyer for the development of an incredibly powerful mathematical tool.
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Andrew Wiles: what does it feel like to do maths?
We were very excited to meet Andrew Wiles this summer! In this interview and videos he tells us what it was like to prove Fermat's Last Theorem, and what it feels like to do maths.
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Andrew Wiles wins Abel Prize!
One of the greatest honours in maths has been awarded for the proof of Fermat's last theorem.
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Abel Prize 2015: all wrapped up
This year's Abel prize shows you can wrap anything, no matter how weirdly shaped.
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John Milnor: A conversation with a mathematical legend
Why doing maths is like being Lewis Carroll's Red Queen and how to keep going beyond the formidable age of 84.
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Grappling with chaos: The Abel Prize 2014
The ability to see order in chaos has won the mathematician Yakov G. Sinai the 2014 Abel Prize.