Abel prize

The Abel Prize 2011 goes to John Milnor

The Abel Prize 2011 goes to John Willard Milnor of Stony Brook University, New York for "pioneering discoveries in topology, geometry and algebra".

And who chooses the winners?

What's the point of the Fields Medal and other maths prizes? Who decides who gets one? And when will we have the first female medallist? Rachel talks to László Lovász, current president of the International Mathematical Union (IMU), Martin Grötschel, the IMU's secretary, and Ragni Piene, the new chair of the Abel Prize committee about all this and more.

Abel Prize 2010 goes to John T. Tate

A Galileo of number theory

Going the distance

The Abel Prize 2009 goes to Mikhail Gromov

Abel for symmetry

Prestigious mathematics prize goes to group theorists

The Abel Prize 2007

This year's prize goes to Srinivasa S. R. Varadhan

The 2006 Abel prize celebrates the mathematician who helped make mp3s possible.

A differential story

Peter D Lax wins the Abel Prize 2005.

Count-abel even if not solve-abel

The 2004 Abel Prize celebrates one of the great landmarks of 20th century mathematics.

Winning the first Abel Prize just might elevate mathematician Jean-Pierre Serre to celebrity status!

And the winner is ...

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