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
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Monday, April 13, 2009
The Abel Prize: Drawing parallels in geometry
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Abel Prize,
Bolyai,
Euclid,
Gauss,
Gromov,
Lobachevsky,
parallel,
Riemann
Thursday, April 9, 2009
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
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Abel Prize,
Gromov
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