Queen Sonja awarded the Abel Prize to Lennart Carleson in a formal ceremony on 23 May. The award winner described the occasion as "an overwhelming event in my life".
28/05/2006 :: Lennart Carleson (78) received the Abel Prize of NOK 6 million (EUR 750 000) for his in-depth and innovative contributions to harmonic analysis and the theory on dynamical systems.
The Swedish mathematician was visibly moved as he received the award from Queen Sonja at the university auditorium in Oslo.
"Carl Friedrich Gauss (German mathematician and physicist 1777-1855 ed. note) once described mathematics as the queen of science, and for a servant of this queen like me to stand here in these beautiful surroundings and receive the grand Abel Prize from a real queen is really an overwhelming event in my life," said Carleson.
Carleson was honoured for several days in Oslo, and the mathematician from the Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, expressed deep gratitude at the award ceremony.
"Thank you so much. First and foremost I'd like to thank the Norwegian people for establishing this prize that has strengthened the role of mathematics for all scientists," said Carleson.
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Queen Sonja awarded the Abel Prize 2006 to Lennart Carleson on May 23 in Oslo. Click the photo to see a video clip (requires Quick Time)
(Photo: Knut Falch/ Scanpix/ The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters) |
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