The Abel Prize: Drawing parallels in geometry

Mikhail Gromov has been awarded the Abel Prize for his work making sense of the range of geometries that appeared in the 19th century and he is a worthy successor to the likes of Euclid, Riemann and Gauss, Bolyai and Lobachevsky.





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Drawing parallels in Geometry

Gromov: Russian-French mathematician receives the Abel Prize

The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has decided to award the Abel Prize for 2009 to the Russian-French mathematician Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov (65) for "his revolutionary contributions to geometry".





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The Abel Prize 2009