{"id":669,"date":"2008-03-26T13:09:33","date_gmt":"2008-03-26T18:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=669"},"modified":"2008-06-17T10:18:15","modified_gmt":"2008-06-17T15:18:15","slug":"2008-abel-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=669","title":{"rendered":"2008 Abel Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The winner of this year&#8217;s Abel prize, a prize of over $1 million set up back in 2001 to provide an equivalent of a Nobel prize in mathematics, is&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Actually, I have no idea.  If you know who it is, feel free to break any vows of confidentiality in the comment section here.  Otherwise we have to wait until 7am EDT tomorrow morning, when the answer will be revealed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abelprisen.no\/en\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>:  The prize goes to John Thompson and Jacques Tits, for their work on finite groups.  More details <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abelprisen.no\/en\/prisvinnere\/2008\/\">here<\/a>, including the citations for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abelprisen.no\/nedlastning\/2008\/Artikkel_6E.pdf\">Thompson<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abelprisen.no\/nedlastning\/2008\/Artikkel_7E.pdf\">Tits<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The winner of this year&#8217;s Abel prize, a prize of over $1 million set up back in 2001 to provide an equivalent of a Nobel prize in mathematics, is&#8230; Actually, I have no idea. If you know who it is, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=669\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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-669","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\/669","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=669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}