Tokyo (Jiji Press)– The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters said Wednesday that this year’s Abel Prize for mathematicians with distinguished achievements will be given to Masaki
Tokyo (Jiji Press)– The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters said Wednesday that this year’s Abel Prize for mathematicians with distinguished achievements will be given to Masaki Kashiwara, making him the first Japanese to win the award.
Kashiwara, 78, a specially appointed professor at Kyoto University’s Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, won the award for “his fundamental contributions to algebraic analysis and representation theory, in particular the development of the theory of D-modules and the discovery of crystal bases,” the academy said.
