During the course of his notable career, professor Pierre Deligne of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, this year’s winner of the Abel Prize in Mathematics, collaborated with two members of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics: professors emeriti Eduardo Cattani and Aroldo Kaplan.
Deligne is being recognized “for seminal contributions to algebraic geometry and for their transformative impact on number theory, representation theory, and related fields.”
The Abel Prize was instituted in 2002 by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Arts as an international prize for