NEWS THE QUOTE Ramanujan Prize named after Indian Eric Temple Bell, mathematician mathematician (1883- 1960) The Abel Fund supports the To appreciate the living creation of the spirit rather than the dry Ramanujan bones of mathematics, it Prize for young is necessary to inspect mathematicians from the work of a master at developing countries. first hand. Textbooks The Prize carries a and treatises are an $10.000 casch award. unavoidable evil... The very crudities of the first Read more 21.03.2005 attack on a significant 14:09 problem by a master are more illuminating than all the pretty elegance of The Abel Symposium 2005 the standard texts which has been won at the cost Stochastic Analysis and of perhaps centuries of Applications - A finicky polishing. Symposium in Honor of Kiyosi Itô is going to take place July 29 - CALENDAR August 4 in Oslo, Peter D. Lax, Courant Institute of Mathematical Norway. 24.05.2005 Sciences, New York University. The Abel Prize Read more 20.03.2005 Ceremony 2005 The Abel Prize 2005 to 15:36 King Harald of Norway will Peter D. Lax present the Abel Prize for 2005 to the winner on May The Norwegian Academy of Science A popularised presentation of Lax' 24th in the University of and Letters has decided to award the work Oslo Aula. Abel Prize for 2005 to Peter D. Lax, Professor Helge More... Courant Institute of Mathematical Holden has 25.05.2005 written an article Sciences, New York University. Lax The Abel Lectures where he receives the Abel Prize “for his 2005 describes the groundbreaking contributions to the work of this year's Abel The Abel Lectures 2005 will theory and application of partial Laureate Peter D Lax. take place on the 25th of May, the day after the Abel Below is a short differential equations and to the Prize ceremony. computation of their solutions” to summary. More... quote the Abel Committee. Read more 20.03.2005 29.07.2005 - 04.08.2005 15:03 Peter D. Lax has been described as the The 2005 Abel most versatile mathematician of his Symposium generation. Abel reception in University of Oslo, Georg He stands out in joining together pure and Brussels Sverdrups hus applied mathematics, combining a deep Sir Michael The symposium is the understanding of analysis with an Atiyah who second in the new series of extraordinary capacity to find unifying shared the Abel symposia. It is held on concepts. He has had a profound influence, Abel Prize the occasion of Kiyosi Itô's not only by his research, but also by his 2004 with Isadore 90th birthday and will be devoted to his work and its writing, his lifelong commitment to Singer, is one of the further developments and education and his generosity to younger speakers at a luncheon applications. mathematicians. event in Brussels on 18 More... February. It is hosted by Peter D. Lax’s work has been recognized by All arrangements the Norwegian embassy many honours and awards. He was and the Mission of awarded the National Medal of Science in Norway to the EU. 1986, presented by President Ronald Reagan at a White House ceremony. Lax Read more 14.02.2005 received the Wolf Prize in 1987 and the 17:07 Chauvenet Prize in 1974 and shared the American Mathematical Society’s Steele Prize in 1992. Interview in Notices of AMS Peter D. Lax became a member of the US An extensive National Academy of Sciences in 1962. He interview with has also been both president (1977-80) has also been both president (1977-80) the Abel Prize and vice president (1969-71) of the laureates Sir American Mathematical Society. Michael Atiyah and Isadore Singer will be Press release and biography published in the February Abelprisen issue of Notices of AMS. c/o Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi Read more 04.01.2005 Drammensveien 78 09:28 NO-0271 Oslo Phone: +47 22 12 10 90 News Archive Fax: +47 22 12 10 99 Further Information: [email protected]