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Physics 17 March 2021
László Lovász (left) and Avi Wigderson (right) have been awarded the Abel prize
László Lovász Hungarian Academy of Sciences/Laszlo Mudra/Abel Prixe Avi Wigderson Cliff Moore/Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ USA
One of the biggest prizes in maths has been awarded to two people for their “foundational contributions to theoretical computer science and discrete mathematics”. László Lovász at the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics in Budapest, Hungary, and Avi Wigderson at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey share this year’s Abel prize, which is sometimes called the Nobel prize of mathematics.