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Born May 1, 1926 (age 98) • Budapest • Hungary
Awards And Honors Abel Prize (2005)
Subjects Of Study partial differential equation

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Louis Nirenberg
Louis Nirenberg
Canadian-born American mathematician
Charles Fefferman
American mathematician
Endre Szemerédi
Endre Szemerédi
Hungarian American mathematician
John Nash
John Nash
American mathematician
John Tate
American mathematician
John Willard Milnor, 2011.
John Willard Milnor
American mathematician
Isadore Singer receiving the Abel Prize
Isadore Singer
American mathematician
John von Neumann
John von Neumann
American mathematician
Theodore von Kármán
Theodore von Kármán
American engineer
Jean Le Rond d'Alembert.
Jean Le Rond d’Alembert
French mathematician and philosopher
Carl Jacobi
German mathematician
Sofya Kovalevskaya, c. 1875–80.
Sofya Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya
Russian mathematician
James H. Wilkinson
English mathematician
Terence Tao
Australian mathematician
Pierre-Louis Lions
French mathematician
Jean Bourgain
Belgian mathematician
Edward Thomas Copson
British mathematician
Johann Friedrich Pfaff
German mathematician
Yakov Sinai
Russian-American mathematician
Andrew John Wiles
Andrew Wiles
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