{"id":5674,"date":"2013-03-20T07:32:43","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T11:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=5674"},"modified":"2013-03-21T11:12:21","modified_gmt":"2013-03-21T15:12:21","slug":"abel-prize-to-pierre-deligne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=5674","title":{"rendered":"Abel Prize to Pierre Deligne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just woke up to see that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abelprize.no\/\">this year&#8217;s Abel Prize<\/a> has gone to algebraic geometer and number theorist Pierre Deligne, who is one of the truly great figures in 20th century mathematics.  Deligne first became well-known for his proof of the Weil Conjectures in the 1970s, and has had a long and and very fruitful career since then, much of it spent at the Institute in Princeton.  While working mainly in a part of mathematics far from physics, he also has had a long history of interactions with physicists,  participating in the IAS year-long program on QFT, and most recently getting involved in current research on amplitudes.   An excellent choice, congratulations to him!.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nUpdate:<\/strong>  See <a href=\"http:\/\/gowers.wordpress.com\/2013\/03\/20\/pierre-deligne-wins-the-2013-abel-prize\/\">Tim Gowers&#8217;s blog <\/a>for more, including his <a href=\"http:\/\/gowers.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/03\/peterd.pdf\">talk presenting Deligne&#8217;s work<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just woke up to see that this year&#8217;s Abel Prize has gone to algebraic geometer and number theorist Pierre Deligne, who is one of the truly great figures in 20th century mathematics. Deligne first became well-known for his proof of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=5674\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5674"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5690,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5674\/revisions\/5690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}