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- Recently, the Abel Prize has been awarded to American Professor Dennis Parnell Sullivan.
- He was awarded the prize “For his groundbreaking contributions to topology in its broadest sense, and in particular its algebraic, geometric and dynamical aspects.”
About Abel Prize
- Named after: Norwegian mathematician Niels Henrik Abel (1802–1829)
- Awarded annually to outstanding mathematicians.
- Supports a number of measures directed towards stimulating the interest in mathematics amongst children and youths.
- Established by: the Norwegian Government in 2002
- Managed by: The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.
- Monetary award: 7.5 million Norwegian kroner (NOK)
About Niels Henrik Abel
- Norwegian mathematician
- A frontiers person in the development of several branches of modern mathematics.
- Neils Abel’s first papers, published in 1823, were on functional equations and integrals.
- The key finding of his work, known as Abel’s theorem, forms the foundation for the later theory of Abelian integrals and Abelian functions, which is a generalisation of elliptic function theory to functions with multiple variables.
- His work is also utilised today in ECC-cryptography, used for encrypting data online.
Source: TH
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