Cutting a hole in the pool table will not win you any friends at the local pub, but it has landed one mathematician a $1 million prize. Yakov Sinai of Princeton University and the Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics in Chernogolovka, Russia, has been awarded the Abel prize by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Worth 6 million kroner (roughly US$1 million), it is sometimes called the Nobel prize of mathematics as the subject does not have its own, real Nobel.
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