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2019

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who is the recipient of the 2019 Abel Prize for mathematics?
A
John Nash
B
Karen Uhlenbeck
C
Robert Langlands
D
Jacques Tits
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The first three volumes cover the years 2003–2007, 2008–2012, and 2013-2017 respectively. In 2019, Karen Uhlenbeck became the first woman to win the Abel Prize, with the award committee citing “the fundamental impact of her work on analysis, geometry and mathematical physics.

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: -The first Abel Prize laureate was Jean-Pierre Serre in 2003. In 2019 the prize money was increased to 7,5 million NOK.

Detailed explanation-4: -Dennis Parnell Sullivan awarded the 2022 Abel Prize.

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