Karen Be First Woman To Win Abel Prize

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Keskulla Uhlenbeck
The most prestigious mathematics prizes in the world was awarded to a woman for the first time on Tuesday.

Karen Uhlenbeck, a mathematician and emeritus professor at the University of Texas at Austin, is now the first woman to win the Abel Prize for mathematics.
An American professor has become the first woman to be awarded the Abel Prize, one of the world’s most prestigious international mathematics awards.
The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters announced in Oslo on Tuesday that Karen Keskulla Uhlenbeck of the University of Texas at Austin was this year’s winner of the prize, seen by many as the Nobel Prize in mathematics.
The prize was first awarded in 2003 to honor the 19th-century Norwegian mathematician Niels Henrik Abel worth 6m Norwegian kroner ($704,000)..

Among her other meaningful contributions was her work on the calculus of variations, the study of how small changes in one quantity can help find the minimum or maximum value of another. 

A real-world example comes in blowing soap bubbles, which always adjust their shape so that their surface area is minimised. Predicting comparable structures in higher dimensions is enormously challenging, but Uhlenbeck’s work has greatly helped.

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