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Michael France Atiyah: Abel Prize winner 2004. Photo: Anne Lise Flavik

2004: Sir Michael Francis Atiyah

University of Edinburgh, Scotland
"for their discovery and proof of the index theorem, bringing together topology, geometry and analysis, and their outstanding role in building new bridges between mathematics and theoretical physics."
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Isadore M. Singer: Abel Prize winner 2004. Photo: Anne Lise Flavik

2004: Isadore M. Singer

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
"for their discovery and proof of the index theorem, bringing together topology, geometry and analysis, and their outstanding role in building new bridges between mathematics and theoretical physics."

Videos

The Abel Prize Interview 2004 with Isadore Singer and Sir Michael Atiyah

The Abel Prize Interview 2004 with Isadore Singer and Sir Michael Atiyah. Interviewed by mathematicians Martin Raussen og Christian Skau.

Michael Atiyah: The future of mathematical physics: new ideas in old bottles

Atiyah gives the Abel lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2018.