The Abel Prize Award Ceremony May 23
Produced by UniMedia, Yvonne Pettrém og Arve Nordland
His Majesty King Harald presented the Abel Prize to Yves Meyer at the award ceremony in Oslo on 23 May. He received the prize "for his pivotal role in the development of the mathematical theory of wavelets", to quote the Abel committee. Yves Meyer, of the École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay, was the visionary leader in the modern development of this theory, at the intersection of mathematics, information technology and computational science.
The Abel Prize carries a cash award of 6 million NOK (about EUR 700,000 or USD 750,000) and has been awarded annually since 2003 by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.