- The Abel Prize for 2020 awarded to the Mathematicians Hillel Furstenberg and Gregory Margulis for 'pioneering the use of methods from probability and dynamics in group theory, number theory, and combinatorics.'
- Abel Prize,
- The Abel Prize was established on 1st January 2002. The prize is awarded by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. It is named after Niels Henrik Abel (1802-29), who was the Norwegian mathematician.
- The purpose of the Abel Prize is to honor the mathematician who performs outstanding scientific work in the field of mathematics.
- The prize money for this prize is 7.5 million Norwegian Kroner (NOK). In 2003, French mathematician Jean-Pierre Serre, who had won the first Abel Prize.
- Hillel Furstenberg,
- Hillel (Harry) Furstenberg is born in Berlin, Germany in 1935. He is an American-Israeli mathematician and served as Professor at the Jerusalem Hebrew University.
- Gregory Margulis,
- Gregory Margulis is born in Moscow, Russia in 1946. He is a Russian-American mathematician known for his work on lattices in Lie groups.
Published On : 24 Mar 2020
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