Edinburgh academic awarded 'Nobel prize' for maths

From: The Scotsman | Date: May 26, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

A FORMER Edinburgh University academic yesterday received the maths world's equivalent of the Nobel prize.

Sir Michael Atiyah, 75, shared 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 honoured the pair for discovering and proving the Atiyah-Singer theorem 40 years ago. The award was presented by King Harald of Norway at a ceremony in Oslo.

The academy's citation stated the academics had played an "outstanding role in ...

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