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Abel Prize
May 27 , 2019
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- Professor Karen Uhlenbeck of the University of Texas the has been awarded the Abel Prize.
- It is one of the most prestigious awards in the field of mathematics. It is considered the Nobel Prize of Mathematics.
- She becomes the first and only woman to have won the award.
- It accompanies a prize of 6 million Norwegian Kroner (~£530,000).
Origin
- The Abel prize was first proposed in 1899 by Sophus Lie.
- He proposed it after knowing that there would be no Nobel prize for Mathematics.
- Abel Prize was started in 2002.
- It was to commemorate the 100th birth centenary of Norwegian mathematician Niels Henrik Abel.
- The prize is named after him by The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. (established in 1760).
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