Abel award

摘要

Mathematician John Milnor, of Stony Brook University in New York, has been awarded this year's Abel Prize in mathematics, worth around US$1 million and considered as prestigious as the Nobel prizes. A polymath whose work spans topological conundrums, group theory and dynamical systems, Milnor has already won just about every other prize available in his field, including the Fields Medal (1962) and the Wolf prize (1989). See go.nature.com/ frdfhh for more.