{"id":251,"date":"2022-05-09T18:45:05","date_gmt":"2022-05-09T18:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/isf.mathhouse.org\/EN\/?p=251"},"modified":"2022-07-01T18:00:25","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T18:00:25","slug":"abel-prize-for-2022-goes-to-new-york-mathematician","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/isf.mathhouse.org\/EN\/?p=251","title":{"rendered":"Abel Prize for 2022 Goes to New York Mathematician"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Dennis P. Sullivan of Stony Brook University and the City University Graduate Center won an award that is the equivalent of the Nobel Prize for math.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Dennis P. Sullivan, a professor of mathematics at Stony Brook University and the City University of New York Graduate Center, is the winner of this year\u2019s Abel Prize \u2014 the equivalent of a Nobel in mathematics.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\r\n\r\n<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">In its citation, the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, the organization that administers the Abel, said Dr. Sullivan was honored \u201cfor his groundbreaking contributions to topology in its broadest sense, and in particular its algebraic, geometric and dynamical aspects.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\r\n\r\n<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Topology is the study of space and shapes, and most of Dr. Sullivan\u2019s work involves what mathematicians call manifolds \u2014 the higher-dimensional versions of two-dimensional surfaces. While that work is abstract, some of his recent research in fluid flows and turbulence could add to the understanding of the paths of hurricanes, the dispersions of air pollutants and the whorls of vortices behind airplane wings.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\r\n\r\n<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">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.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dennis P. Sullivan of Stony Brook University and the City University Graduate Center won an award that is the equivalent of the Nobel Prize for math. Dennis P. Sullivan, a professor of mathematics at Stony Brook University and the City University of New York Graduate Center, is the winner of this year\u2019s Abel Prize \u2014 &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/isf.mathhouse.org\/EN\/?p=251\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Abel Prize for 2022 Goes to New York Mathematician<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-math-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/isf.mathhouse.org\/EN\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/isf.mathhouse.org\/EN\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/isf.mathhouse.org\/EN\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/isf.mathhouse.org\/EN\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/isf.mathhouse.org\/EN\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/isf.mathhouse.org\/EN\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2214,"href":"https:\/\/isf.mathhouse.org\/EN\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions\/2214"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/isf.mathhouse.org\/EN\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/isf.mathhouse.org\/EN\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/isf.mathhouse.org\/EN\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/isf.mathhouse.org\/EN\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}