Pierre Deligne, the noted Belgian mathematician wins this year’s Abel Prize in Mathematics.
The 69-year-old Mathematics professor at Princeton has won 2013 prestigious Abel Prize which is considered equivalent to the Nobel Prize for his “seminal contributions to algebraic geometry and for their transformative impact on number theory, representation theory and related fields.”
The award was announced by Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters in Oslo on Wednesday.
Deligne will receive $1 million cash prize.
