2023-05-23 22:04:46
The Argentine Luis Ángel Caffarelli received this Tuesday (05.23.2023) at the University of Oslo and from the hands of King Harald V of Norway the Abel Prize, considered the “Nobel” in Mathematics, for his studies on differential equations.
Caffarelli, the first Latin American to win the award, was distinguished by the Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters for his “fundamental” contributions to “the theory of the regularity of nonlinear partial differential equations, including free boundary problems and the Monge-Ampère equation.
Differential equations play a role of “first order” in many disciplines such as Physics, Economics and Biology, but the fundamental questions regarding the existence, uniqueness, regularity and stability of the solutions of some of them have not been resolved.
Caffarelli, 74, was born in Buenos Aires and studied Mathematics at the university in his hometown, where he received his doctorate in 1972 with a thesis on polynomials. A year later, he moved to Minnesota (United States) to do graduate school. He is currently still a professor at the University of Texas.
The Abel Prize is named after the Norwegian mathematician Niels Henrik Abel (1802-1829) and was established by the Parliament of this Scandinavian country in 2002. It is endowed with 7.5 million Norwegian crowns (659,000 euros, 708,000 dollars).
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