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The Abel Prize 2005

This year's Abel Prize Laureate

The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has decided to award the Abel Prize for 2005, worth NOK 6,000,000 (USD 980,000, GBP 510,000, EUR 735,000) to

Peter Lax
Peter D. Lax
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
New York University

"for his groundbreaking contributions to the theory and application of partial differential equations and to the computation of their solutions."

Read more about the prize-winner in the press release and in the popular-science presentation.

The Abel Prize 2005

Press releases and biographies (pdfs)

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Popularised presentations (pdf)

  English
Long (9 pages)
Shorter (6 pages)
Summary (1 page)

Previous Laureates

2003: Jean-Pierre Serre 2004: Sir Michael Francis Atiyah and Isadore M. Singer

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