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New PDF release: The Abel Prize 2008-2012

By Helge Holden,Ragni Piene

ISBN-10: 3642394485

ISBN-13: 9783642394485

ISBN-10: 366251253X

ISBN-13: 9783662512531

Covering the years 2008-2012, this book profiles the lifestyles and paintings of contemporary winners of the Abel Prize:
 
·         John G. Thompson and Jacques titties, 2008
·         Mikhail Gromov, 2009
·         John T. Tate Jr., 2010
·         John W. Milnor, 2011
·         Endre Szemerédi, 2012.

The profiles function autobiographical info in addition to an outline of every mathematician's paintings. furthermore, each one profile incorporates a whole bibliography, a curriculum vitae, in addition to photographs — outdated and new. As an further feature, interviews with the Laureates are awarded on an accompanying website (http://extras.springer.com/).

The publication additionally provides a  history of the Abel Prize written via the historian Kim Helsvig, and encompasses a facsimile of a letter from Niels Henrik Abel, that is transcribed, translated into English, and put into ancient perspective by Christian Skau.

This booklet follows on The Abel Prize: 2003-2007, the 1st 5 Years (Springer, 2010), which profiles the paintings of the 1st Abel Prize winners.

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