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The Abel Prize 2006

This year's Abel Prize Laureate

The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has decided to award the Abel Prize for 2006, worth NOK 6,000,000 (USD 920,000, GBP 520,000, EUR 755,000) to

Lennart Carleson
Lennart Carleson
Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden,

"for his profound and seminal contributions to harmonic analysis and the theory of smooth dynamical systems."

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

The Abel Prize 2006

Press releases and biographies (pdfs)
 
  English press CV
  French press
  German press
  Italian press
  Japanese press
  Norwegian press CV
  Russian press
  Spanish press
  Swedish press

Popularised presentations by Arne B. Sletjøe

Professor Marcus du Sautoy on Lennart Carleson

Previous Laureates

2003: Jean-Pierre Serre 2004: Sir Michael Francis Atiyah and Isadore M. Singer 2005: Peter D. Lax

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