美国数学家获2011年度阿贝尔奖 2011年03月25日18:17 科技日报 新华社奥斯陆3月23日电 (记者刘敏) 挪威科学院23日宣布，将2011年度的阿贝尔奖(The Abel Prize 2011)授予美国 Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Stony Brook University数学家约翰·米尔诺( John Willard Milnor )。颁奖仪式将于2011年5月在奥斯陆进行。 挪威科学院说，之所以将今年的阿贝尔奖授予约翰·米尔诺，是因为他在拓扑学、几何学和代数学等方面所作的开创性发现。“在长达60年的时间里，约翰·米尔诺在现代数学史上留下了一个深刻的印记。许多数学概念、推论等都是以他的名字命名。” 约翰·米尔诺此前已获得多个相关奖项和荣誉：1962年，他因在微分拓扑学领域的杰出工作而获得菲尔兹奖( Fields Medal )；1963年，被选为美国国家科学院院士；1994年，他成为俄罗斯科学院外籍院士；2011年，他获得美国数学学会颁发的斯狄尔终身成就奖。 阿贝尔是挪威19世纪早期的一位天才数学家，他在5次方程和椭圆函数研究方面取得了远超当时世界水平的成就。2002年阿贝尔诞辰200周年时，挪威政府设立了以他的名字命名的这项国际性大奖，奖金为600万挪威克朗(约合100万美元)，从2003年起每年颁发一次。 The Abel Prize 2011 goes to John Willard Milnor of Stony Brook University, New York for "pioneering discoveries in topology, geometry and algebra". The Able Prize is one of the most important international prizes in mathematics. It's awarded annually by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and carries a prize money of around 650,000. 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.
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