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ABEL PRIZE
- The Abel Prize is a Norwegian prize awarded annually by the King of Norway to one or more outstanding mathematicians.
- It is named after Norwegian mathematician Niels Henrik Abel (1802–1829) and directly modeled after the Nobel Prizes. It comes with a monetary award of 7.5 million Norwegian Kroner (NOK).
- The Abel Prize’s history dates back to 1899, when its establishment was proposed by the Norwegian mathematician Sophus Lie when he learned that Alfred Nobel’s plans for annual prizes would not include a prize in mathematics.
- It took almost a century before the prize was finally established by the Government of Norway in 2001, and it was specifically intended “to give the mathematicians their own equivalent of a Nobel Prize.”
GRIGORY MARGULIS
- Margulis was born to a Russian family of Lithuanian Jewish descent in Moscow, Soviet Union.
- At age 16 in 1962 he won the silver medal at the International Mathematical Olympiad.
- He received his PhD in 1970 from the Moscow State University, starting research in ergodic theory.
GRIGORY MARGULIS
- He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1978.In 1991, Margulis accepted a professorial position at Yale University. Margulis was elected a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 2001. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
- In 2020, Margulis received the Abel Prize jointly with Hillel
- Furstenberg “For pioneering the use of methods from probability and dynamics in group theory, number theory and combinatorics.”
HILLEL FURSTENBERG
- Furstenberg was born in Germany, in 1935. His family escaped to the United States and settled in the Washington Heights neighborhood of New York City.
- He attended Marsha Stern Talmudical Academy and then Yeshiva University, where he concluded his BA and MSc studies at the age of 20 in 1955.
- Furstenberg pursued his doctorate at Princeton University.In 1958 he received his PhD for his thesis, Prediction Theory.
HILLEL FURSTENBERG
- Furstenberg got his first job as an assistant professor in 1961 at the University of Minnesota.
- Furstenberg was promoted to full professor at Minnesota but moved to Israel in 1965 to join at Hebrew University’s Einstein Institute of Mathematics.
- He received the Abel Prize with Gregory Margulis “for pioneering the use of methods from probability and dynamics in group theory, number theory and combinatorics.
ABEL PRIZE – 2020
- PROBABILITY AND DYNAMICS IN GROUP THEORY,
- NUMBER THEORY AND COMBINATORICS”
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