The Abel Year 2010

The Abel Prize Laureate 2010

The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has decided to award the Abel Prize for 2010 to

John Torrence Tate

University of Texas at Austin, USA

«for his vast and lasting impact on the theory of numbers.»

The 2010 Abel Prize Ceremony

Read more: The 2010 Abel Prize Ceremony

Interview with Abel laureate

John Torrence Tate interviewed by the two mathematicians Martin Raussen og Christian Skau.

The TV-interview with John Tate was broadcasted on Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK)

Video:Watch the interview

The Abel lecture

Video: John Torrence Tate: The arithmetic of elliptic curves

The lectures were held at the University of Oslo, on 16 May.

Richard Taylor gave the other Abel Lecture with the title "The Tate Conjecture".

Andreas Enge gave the Science Lecture where the topic was cryptology with the title "The queen of mathematics in communication security"

Wreath-laying ceremony at the Abel Monument

Abelprisvinneren la ned krans ved Abelmonumentet.

Pictures

The Abel Prize announcement

The President of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, Nils Christian Stenseth, announced the name of the 2010 Abel Laureate at the Academy in Oslo 24. March.

Video: The 2010 announcement

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Fax: + 47 22 12 10 99
E-mail: abelprisen@dnva.no

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