Niels Henrik Abel

Named after Norwegian mathematician Niels Henrik Abel, it comes with a cash award of six million Norwegian kroner, equivalent to nearly $1 million. Langlands, 81, could not be reached for comment Wednesday. (An official at his office at the IAS – which it can be noted is the same office once occupied by ...

Named after the 19th-century Norwegian mathematician Niels Henrik Abel, the prize has been awarded since 2003 for “outstanding scientific work in the field of mathematics.” In its citation, the academy lauded the 81-year-old Langlands for “visionary” work that “revolutionized” mathematics. His theories ...

OSLO, March 20 (Xinhua) -- Canadian mathematician Robert Langlands has been named as the winner of the Abel Prize for 2018 "for his visionary program connecting representation theory to number theory," the Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters said Tuesday. "Langlands' insights were so ...

This program is sponsored by the International Union of Mathematicians (IMU) and is supported by a grant from the Niels Henrik Abel Board, the same board who awards the prestigious Abel Prize in Mathematics. It is designed to offer post-doctoral mathematicians who are based in developing countries ...

The award is comparable to a Nobel Prize, and is named after the exceptional Norwegian Niels Henrik Abel, who, in a short life from 1802 to 1829, made dramatic advances in mathematics. Meyer was chosen for his development of the mathematical theory of wavelets. In the early 1980s French engineer ...

Niels Henrik Abel, born in 1802, made profound contributions to maths in an all-too-brief life. Perhaps his most important achievement was a proof that there is no algebraic formula for solving quintic equations. A linear equation, such as 2x – 6 = 0, has one root, that is, one value of x that makes it hold true.