CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Wiles. “for his stunning proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem by way of the modularity conjecture for semistable elliptic curves, opening a new era in number theory."

Detailed explanation-2: -Srinivasa Varadhan, (born Jan. 2, 1940, Madras [now Chennai], India), Indian mathematician awarded the 2007 Abel Prize by the Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters “for his fundamental contributions to probability theory and in particular for creating a unified theory of large deviations.”

Detailed explanation-3: -There is no Nobel Prize in mathematics, and for decades, the most prestigious awards in math were the Fields Medals, awarded in small batches every four years to the most accomplished mathematicians who are 40 or younger.

Detailed explanation-4: -Hugo Duminil-Copin For solving longstanding problems in the probabilistic theory of phase transitions in statistical physics, especially in dimensions three and four.