Mathematics top prize awarded to a woman for first time

[Miigwech]

Source: New York Daily News | Mar 19, 2019 | 4:09 PM



A professor from the University of Texas at Austin has become the first woman ever to win one of the most prestigious prizes in mathematics.

The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters on Tuesday named Karen Uhlenbeck the recipient of its 2019 Able Prize. The international award, modeled after the Nobel Prize, is given to those who have made significant impacts in their fields and comes with a cash prize of Norwegian kroner worth about $700,000.

Uhlenbeck was cited for “her pioneering achievements in geometric partial differential equations, gauge theory and interchangeable systems, and for the fundamental impact of her work on analysis, geometry and mathematical physics.”

While the 76-year-old award-winner is best known for her work in the geometry field, she has also touched on physics and the quantum theory over the course of her decades-long career.


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[Paladin]

1. Hook 'em, Professor Uhlenbeck! Congrats. (nt)

[Hulk]

2. Move over boys...

From here on I would expect this to NOT be news. In fact, the news may be something like "a male has finally won the Nobel Prize in mathematics for the first time in ....... years."

[NewJeffCT]

4. That was one of my disappointments when Clinton "lost" in 2016

My daughter was 13 at the time and we just had Obama for 8 years of her life and I was hoping if Clinton won, she'd have 16 years of first a black man and then a woman as president and it would have been something normal to not have a white male as president as she entered adulthood.

Instead, she gets Trump while she is turning 16 and then 17 next year.

[Hulk]

6. Yeah....my grandkids too....

These are really dark times, but we have several females running for the White House now, and maybe they will or maybe they won't get nominated, but they are taking the stage and making their presence known.

The ugliest period in American history, bar the Civil War and the great World Wars, this is it.

[NewJeffCT]

3. Congratulations to Professor Uhlenbeck

Great that she won the award, surprised a woman has never won it until this year.

[BumRushDaShow]

5. K&R

[mopinko]

7. huh. my son could have been one of her students, but

he went to u utah instead. now he is pissed at the sexism there.
bwahahaa.

he had the choice of a full boat to either, and we suspect that he took utah as we were pushing him toward austin. we wanted to visit austin. utah not so much.

congrats to her, and so sorry she didnt get to teach my boy. tho it might have broken his brain.

[Lucky Luciano]

9. On top of that, UT has last year's Fields Medalist Alessio Figalli.

I’m actually meeting Figalli tomorrow!

[dlk]

8. Brava to Uhlenbeck! Onward and Upward!

[Lucky Luciano]

10. The Abel prize is a big deal. Congrats doctor Uhlenbeck!! Nt

[pazzyanne]

11. .

[royable]

12. Hoorah! About time!

I hope this helps to inspire young women to get involved in STEM fields. Sexism is the cause of so much lost potential.

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

14. Niels Abel was an early 19th century Norwegian mathematician.

He is best remembered as the man who demonstrated that a general solution to an equation where x is to the 5th (or higher)power is impossible. He also did significant work in other areas, such as elliptical functions and group theory. He died at 26 of tuberculosis.

[Dr. Strange]

15. The "Able" prize? What?

It's Abel! How can they just switch the "e" and the "l" like that? Doesn't the order make a difference?!!?