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Mathematician who reshaped theory of symmetry wins Abel Prize • Mar. 27, 2025, 1:04 AM ET (Nature)

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Notable Honorees Peter Lax • Endre Szemerédi • John Nash • Lennart Carleson • Andrew Wiles • Yakov Sinai • S.R. Srinivasa Varadhan • Sir Michael Francis Atiyah • Jean-Pierre Serre • John Tate • Mikhail Gromov • John Willard Milnor • Isadore Singer • Pierre Deligne • Jacques Tits • Louis Nirenberg

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Abel monument, designed by Gustav Vigeland (1908), Oslo.
Sir Michael Francis Atiyah and Isadore Singer
Lennart Carleson receiving the Abel Prize from Queen Sonja of Norway, 2006.
Mikhail Gromov
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