Milnor 獲得 2011 Abel 獎

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獎金 6M NOK, 大概是 三千萬新台幣

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The Abel Prize awarded to John Milnor, Stony Brook University, NY

The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has decided to award the Abel
Prize for 2011 to John Milnor, Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Stony
Brook University, New York “for pioneering discoveries in topology, geometry
and algebra”. The President of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters,
yvind sterud, announced the winner of this year’s Abel Prize at the
Academy in Oslo today, 23 March.

John Milnor will receive the Abel Prize from His Majesty King Harald at an
award ceremony in Oslo on 24 May. The Abel Prize recognizes contributions of
extraordinary depth and influence to the mathematical sciences and has been
awarded annually since 2003. It carries a cash award of NOK 6,000,000 (close
to EUR 750,000 or USD 1 mill.)

John Milnor’s profound ideas and fundamental discoveries have largely shaped
the mathematical landscape of the second half of the 20th century. All of
Milnor’s work display features of great research: profound insights, vivid
imagination, striking surprises and supreme beauty. He receives the 2011 Abel
Prize “for pioneering discoveries in topology, geometry and algebra,” to
quote the Abel committee.

In the course of 60 years, John Milnor has made a deep mark on modern
mathematics. Numerous mathematical concepts, results and conjectures are
named after him. In the literature we find Milnor exotic spheres, Milnor
fibration, Milnor number and many more.
Yet the significance of Milnor’s work goes far beyond his own spectacular
results. He has also written tremendously influential books, which are widely
considered to be models of fine mathematical writing.
Awards and honours

John Milnor has received many awards and honours. He received the Fields
Medal in 1962 for his work in differential topology when he was only 31.
Recently he was awarded the 2011 Leroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime
Achievement by the American Mathematical Society. Milnor has previously won
two other Steele Prizes from the AMS: for Mathematical Exposition (2004) and
for Seminal Contribution to Research (1982). In 1989 Milnor received the Wolf
Prize in Mathematics.
John Milnor received the US National Medal of Science in 1967. He was elected
as a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1963. Since 1994, he has
been a foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and in 2004 he
became a member of the European Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters.
The Abel Prize

The Niels Henrik Abel Memorial Fund was established in 2002 to award the Abel
Prize for outstanding scientific work in the field of mathematics. The Abel
Prize was awarded for the first time in 2003.
The prize is awarded by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. The
choice of Abel Laureate is based on the recommendation of the Abel Committee,
which consists of five internationally recognized mathematicians.