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Scot wins maths 'Nobel' prize
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A FORMER Edinburgh University academic, regarded as one of the
finest mathematicians of the 20th century, has shared a Norwegian
award equivalent to a Nobel prize.
Sir Michael Atiyah, 75, will jointly receive the GBP 480,000 Abel
prize for mathematics with his long-time collaborator, Professor
Isadore Singer, 79, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
in the United States.
The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters yesterday honoured
the pair for discovering and proving the Atiyah-Singer theorem 40
years ago.
Sir Michael, an honorary professor of mathematics at Edinburgh ...
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