Mathematician Canada Langlands was awarded the Abel Math Prize 2018

On March 20, the prestigious 2018 Abel Math Prize was announced with this honor belonging to the Canadian mathematician Robert Langlands.

Mathematician Langlands, 81, mainly works at American universities.

He was awarded the Abel Prize for having proposed the Langlands program to incorporate representation theory with number theory, which is an extensive research direction in mathematics including many theories and unified theorems of some mathematical disciplines. important.

Canadian mathematician Robert Langlands.(Photo: New York Times / VNA).

Professor Ngo Bao Chau of Vietnam was awarded for proving the basic lemma in the Langlands program.

Abel awards with Fields are often referred to as "Nobel" in Mathematics.

In 2017 the Abel Prize was awarded to French mathematician Yves Meyer on the fundamental contribution to the wavelet theory (mathematical functions applied in data analysis and compression).

The Abel Prize was named after the great Norwegian mathematician Nils Henrich Abel (1802-1829), who founded the theory of elliptic functions and made a major contribution to the theory of sequence.

In 2002 on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of Abel's birth, the Norwegian Government spent 200 million kron (equivalent to 23.6 million USD) to establish the Abel Foundation and the Abel Prize to honor the achievements of outstanding mathematicians. sharp as well as widely promoted in the youth of this science.

The Abel Prize is decided based on the evaluation of the Abel Committee consisting of five famous mathematicians from different countries.

The award ceremony took place at the Norwegian Academy of Sciences and was awarded by the Crown Prince of Norway. The cash value of the prize is 6 million kron of Norwegian money (equivalent to 780,000 USD).