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Books about the Abel Prize Laureates

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Here you will find the book series on the Abel Prize Laureates edited by Helge Holden and Ragni Piene. The books take a look at each laureate life and work. They include autobiographical texts, as well as descriptions of each mathematician's work.

The Abel Prize 2003-2007: The First Five Years
Editors: Helge Holden and Ragni Piene. Published by Springer.

Contents
Part 1 / The History of the Abel Prize and the Honorary Abel Prize 
Part 2 / 2003 Jean-Pierre Serre
Part 3 / 2004 Sir Michael Atiyah and Isadore M. Singer
Part 4 / 2005 Peter D. Lax
Part 5 / 2006 Lennart Carleson
Part 6 / 2007 S.R. Srinivasa Varadhan

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The Abel Prize 2008-2012
Editors: Helge Holden and Ragni Piene. Published by Springer.

Contents
Part 1 / The Abel Prize - The Missing Nobel in Mathematics?
Part 2 / 2008 John G. Thompson and Jacques Tits
Part 3 / 2009 Mikhail Gromov
Part 4 / 2010 John T. Tate Jr.
Part 5 / 2011 John W. Milnor
Part 6 / 2012 Endre Szemerédi

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The Abel Prize 2013 - 2017
Editors: Helge Holden and Ragni Piene. Published by Springer.

Contents
Part 1 / 2013 Pierre Deligne
Part 2 / 2014 Yakov G. Sinai
Part 3 / 2015 John F. Nash and Louis Nirenberg
Part 4 / 2016 Sir Andrew Wiles
Part 5 / 2017 Yves Meyer
Part 6 / Abel Activities

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