Institute of Mathematical Sciences (ICMAT)
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Research scientist at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences (ICMAT, CSIC-UAM-UCM-UC3M), specialising in arithmetic geometry
Scientific researcher at ICMAT and Vice-President for Scientific and Technical Research at CSIC
The German mathematician Gerd Faltings has won the Abel Prize, awarded by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Faltings, director emeritus of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, became a celebrity at the age of 29 for proving a conjecture that earned him the Fields Medal in 1986. His contributions have revolutionised arithmetic geometry, a branch of mathematics at the intersection of the two oldest: number theory and geometry.
The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has awarded the Abel Prize to Luis A. Caffarelli, a native of Argentina with US-Argentine nationality, for his "fundamental contributions to the theory of the regularity of nonlinear partial differential equations". Considered the Nobel Prize of mathematics, the award recognises work over an entire career - unlike the Fields Medal, which is awarded for a result under the age of 40. Caffarelli has become the first Latin American to receive this award.