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And the Abel Prize which is pretty much equivalent to a Nobel Prize in all but name.

There is no Nobel prize in math. There is the Abel Prize and Fields medal though ...

Here is a link to the site with the announcement of the winner.

There is instituted a fairly new prize (although the idea for the prize is a hundred years old) called the Abelprize in memory of the Norwegian mathematical genious Nils Henrik Abel. It's awarded by the Abel committee, consisting of an international group of renowned scientists. The prize comes with a large money-award and presented to the prize-winner with royalty and state present just like the Nobel peace-prize.

Read more:
http://www.abelprisen.no/en/

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It exists. The Abel Prize

http://www.abelprisen.no/en/

One of the faculty members at the Royal Institute of Technology, Henrik Shahgholian, collaborates with one of my colleagues on free boundary problems and visited here about a year ago. Shahgholian is an outstanding mathematician and a very nice person. I agree that RIT is an outstanding university/institute but I do not know how CalTech, MIT and RIT compare. I do know that MIT has a 2004 Abel prize winner, Isadore Singer, and RIT has no Abel prize winners.

I think that in far future all science will be done by AI, because knowledge will be too complicated and complex to understand for even most inteligent human on chemical boost/genetic engineered/stuffed with chips.

I think the empahsis has to be on far future, if science will ever be done by AI. AI can't even consistently beat chess master in a simple game like chess, even though it calculates more moves per second than Kasporov is able to think in a life time. If AI can't even handle something as simple as chess as well as one human (and there has been a fair amount of research into making effective algorithms in chess, and even Big Gene got help from human chess experts that tuned the code while playing Kasparov), then AI isn't even yet on the level of simple arithmetic, not to mention real maths.

The Abel Prize and Fields medal will be going to human researchers into the far future, that is for sure.

Andrew Wiles will probably get the prize, but since the prize is very new, there are many important mathematicians to chose from. And even though Wiles is maybe the best known living mathematician to the general public (because of his solution of Fermat's theorem), among mathematicians Wiles is not consider the most dominant mathematician alive today (Serre, for instant, was generally seen as the natural choice for the first prize). Some of the possible worthy winners are also old and will maybe for this reason get the prize before Wiles which is still young and healthy.

Andrew Wiles will probably get the prize, but since the prize is very new, there are many important mathematicians to chose from. And even though Wiles is maybe the best known living mathematician to the general public (because of his solution of Fermat's theorem), among mathematicians Wiles is not consider the most dominant mathematician alive today (Serre, for instant, was generally seen as the natural choice for the first prize). Some of the possible worthy winners are also old and will maybe for this reason get the prize before Wiles which is still young and healthy.

Andrew Wiles will probably get the prize, but since the prize is very new, there are many important mathematicians to chose from. And even though Wiles is maybe the best known living mathematician to the general public (because of his solution of Fermat's theorem), among mathematicians Wiles is not consider the most dominant mathematician alive today (Serre, for instant, was generally seen as the natural choice for the first prize). Some of the possible worthy winners are also old and will maybe for this reason get the prize before Wiles which is still young and healthy.

The Abel prize was introduced as a sort of "Nobel Prize of math" where people are rewarded for results and achievements that have shown themselves to be of lasting value in the field. Alfred Nobel did not want a Nobel Prize in math since he himself saw little scientific value of math! The most prestigious prize in math before the Abel came into being is the Fields medal, but this prize is only given to younger mathematicians (belove the age of 40) that has made break-through results and show promise for the future. The Fields medal is handed out every 4 years while the Abel is handed out every year (first prize was handed out in 2003).

It would have been ironic for Abel if he were to know that such a huge money prize is to be given out in his name, when his whole life he had to live in poverty and fight to get time and money to do his scientific work. The irony of Abel's life is also that Abel himself finally got a professorship in Berlin; but too late, the letter was sent to him two days after his death.

The Abel prize was introduced as a sort of "Nobel Prize of math" where people are rewarded for results and achievements that have shown themselves to be of lasting value in the field. Alfred Nobel did not want a Nobel Prize in math since he himself saw little scientific value of math! The most prestigious prize in math before the Abel came into being is the Fields medal, but this prize is only given to younger mathematicians (belove the age of 40) that has made break-through results and show promise for the future. The Fields medal is handed out every 4 years while the Abel is handed out every year (first prize was handed out in 2003).

It would have been ironic for Abel if he were to know that such a huge money prize is to be given out in his name, when his whole life he had to live in poverty and fight to get time and money to do his scientific work. The irony of Abel's life is also that Abel himself finally got a professorship in Berlin; but too late, the letter was sent to him two days after his death.

Here is Lax's advive to young mathematicians: "I heartily recommend that all young mathematicians try their skill in some branch of applied mathematics. It is a gold mine of deep problems whose solutions await conceptual as well as technical breakthroughs. It displays an enormous variety, to suit every style; it gives mathematicians a chance to be part of the larger scientific and technological enterprise. Good hunting!"

We describe the world by measuring quantities and forces that vary over time and space. The rules of nature are often expressed by formulas involving their rates of change, so-called differential equations. Such formulas may have an "index", the number of solutions of the formulas minus the number of restrictions which they impose on the values of the quantities being computed. The index theorem calculates this number in terms of the geometry of the surrounding space.

I do not think we have serious disagreements but this is an interesting question.

Before going on with this, I am happy to note that my "PhD grandfather" just received the Abel prize.

Anyway, we can use systems of ODEs or PDEs to model populations and evolution or we can use stochastic process models (or other things). In some of these models, stable (local) equilibria may not exist and more intertesting things can happen. Do we have data on what actually happens in "nature"? My research involves PDEs and systems of PDEs but applications to biological systems is of great interest.

The Abel prize is introduced as a sort of "Nobel Prize of math" where people are rewarded for results and achievements that have shown themselves to be of lasting value in the field. Alfred Nobel did not want there to be a Nobel Prize in math, since he himself saw little scientific value of math! The most prestigious prize in math before the Abel came into being is the Fields medal, but this prize is only given to younger mathematicians (belove the age of 40) that has made break-through results and also show promise for the future. The Fields medal is handed out every 4 years while the Abel will be handed out every year (first prize was handed out last year).

Must have been ironic for Abel if he were to know that such a huge money prize is to be given out in his name, when his whole life he had to live in poverty and fight to get time and money to do his scientific work. The irony of Abel's life is also that Abel himself finally got a professorship in Berlin but too late; the letter was sent to him two days after his death.

The Abel prize is introduced as a sort of "Nobel Prize of math" where people are rewarded for results and achievements that have shown themselves to be of lasting value in the field. Alfred Nobel did not want there to be a Nobel Prize in math, since he himself saw little scientific value of math! The most prestigious prize in math before the Abel came into being is the Fields medal, but this prize is only given to younger mathematicians (belove the age of 40) that has made break-through results and also show promise for the future. The Fields medal is handed out every 4 years while the Abel will be handed out every year (first prize was handed out last year).

Must have been ironic for Abel if he were to know that such a huge money prize is to be given out in his name, when his whole life he had to live in poverty and fight to get time and money to do his scientific work. The irony of Abel's life is also that Abel himself finally got a professorship in Berlin but too late; the letter was sent to him two days after his death.