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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.
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The Abel Prize 2013
This year's Abel Prize has been awarded to the Belgian mathematician Pierre Deligne for "seminal contributions to algebraic geometry and for their transformative impact on number theory, representation theory, and related fields".
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The Abel Prize 2012
This year's Abel Prize goes to Endre Szemerédi for his
"fundamental contributions to discrete mathematics and theoretical
computer science."
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The Abel Prize 2011 goes to John Milnor
The Abel Prize 2011 goes to John Willard Milnor of Stony Brook University, New York for "pioneering discoveries in topology, geometry and algebra".
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And who chooses the winners?
What's the point of the Fields Medal and other maths prizes? Who decides who gets one? And when will we have the first female medallist? Rachel talks to László Lovász, current president of the International Mathematical Union (IMU), Martin Grötschel, the IMU's secretary, and Ragni Piene, the new chair of the Abel Prize committee about all this and more.
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Abel Prize 2010 goes to John T. Tate
A Galileo of number theory
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Going the distance
The Abel Prize 2009 goes to Mikhail Gromov
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Abel for symmetry
Prestigious mathematics prize goes to group theorists
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The Abel Prize 2007
This year's prize goes to Srinivasa S. R. Varadhan
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Abel to iPod
The 2006 Abel prize celebrates the mathematician who helped make mp3s possible.
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A differential story
Peter D Lax wins the Abel Prize 2005.
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Count-abel even if not solve-abel
The 2004 Abel Prize celebrates one of the great landmarks of 20th century mathematics.