«for his groundbreaking contributions to probability theory and functional analysis, with outstanding applications in mathematical physics and statistics.»
Who will be honoured with the Abel Prize this year? Mathematicians all over the world look to Norway when the president of The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters announces the 2024 laureate on the 20th of March.
for his «seminal contributions to regularity theory for nonlinear partial differential equations including
free-boundary problems and the Monge–Ampère equation.».
Jacques Tits was the recipient of the Abel Prize together with John Griggs Thompson in 2008. They received the prize for their profound achievements in algebra and in particular for shaping modern group theory.
The 2021 Abel Prize Laureates László Lovász and Avi Wigderson was honoured together with the 2020 laureates Hillel Furstenberg and Gregory Margulis in a short series of digital events May 24 and 25, 2021. You can watch video of the events here.