{"id":31641,"date":"2025-04-01T05:06:08","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T23:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=31641"},"modified":"2025-04-16T13:35:54","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T08:05:54","slug":"abel-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/abel-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Abel Prize 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Abel Prize Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>The prestigious Abel Prize for mathematics was recently awarded to Japanese mathematician Masaki Kashiwara, a specialist in algebraic analysis, representation theory, and sheaf theory.<\/p>\n<h2>About Abel Prize<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Abel Prize recognises pioneering scientific <strong>achievements in mathematics<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It is <strong>named after Norwegian mathematician Niels Henrik Abel <\/strong>(1802-29), who in his short life made pioneering contributions to multiple fields.<\/li>\n<li>The prize was<strong> established by the Norwegian Parliament in 2002,<\/strong> on Abel\u2019s 200th anniversary.<\/li>\n<li>The Abel Prize is awarded and <strong>administered by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters <\/strong>on behalf of the Norwegian government.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The recipients are <strong>chosen by an expert committee appointed <\/strong>by the Academy<strong> under <\/strong>the <strong>advice of the International Mathematical Union <\/strong>(IMU) and the <strong>European Mathematical Society (EMS).<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>First awarded in 2003<\/strong>, the Abel Prize is often considered to be an <strong>equivalent of the Nobel Prize, <\/strong>which does not have a category <strong>for mathematics.<\/strong> It has been modelled as such.<\/li>\n<li>The prize includes a monetary award of 7.5 million kroner (roughly $720,000) and a glass plaque designed by Norwegian artist Henrik Haugan.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Abel Prize 2025<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It was awarded to <strong>Japanese mathematician Masaki Kashiwara<\/strong> for his fundamental contributions to <strong>algebraic analysis and representation theory<\/strong>, in particular the development of the <strong>theory of D-modules<\/strong> and the <strong>discovery of crystal bases.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>His work has not only helped solve some hard problems that have been around for a long time but also opened new avenues for research by connecting areas that were not known to be connected before.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>For instance, Kashiwara discovered crystal bases, which allowed mathematicians to replace complex calculations with much simpler graphs of vertices connected by lines.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Abel Prize FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1<\/strong>. Who is the only Indian to receive Abel Prize?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. The only Indian to receive the Abel Prize is Srinivasa S. R. Varadhan in 2007.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2<\/strong>. Which country gives Abel the prize?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. The Abel Prize is awarded by Norway.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3<\/strong>. Who was the Abel Prize named after?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. It is named after Norwegian mathematician Niels Henrik Abel (1802-29).<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/world-news\/japan-masaki-kashiwara-wins-prestigious-abel-prize-for-mathematics-8015994\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NDTV<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Abel Prize recognises pioneering scientific achievements in mathematics. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":31642,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-31641","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}