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Masaki Kashiwara

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Mathematician wins 2025 Abel prize for tools to solve tricky equations

Masaki Kashiwara has won the 2025 Abel prize, seen by some as the Nobel of mathematics, for his contributions to algebraic analysis and representation theory

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Why 2024 Abel prize winner Michel Talagrand became a mathematician

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Mathematician wins 2024 Abel prize for making sense of randomness

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Hillel Furstenberg and Gregory Margulis

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Mathematicians who revealed the power of random walks win Abel prize

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Andrew Wiles, who won the Abel prize this week

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Fermat's last theorem mathematician Andrew Wiles wins Abel prize

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<i>A Beautiful Mind</i> mathematician wins Abel prize

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A Beautiful Mind mathematician wins Abel prize

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Billiard table chaos wins $1 million maths prize

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Billiard table chaos wins $1 million maths prize

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Shapely algebra breakthrough wins million-dollar prize

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Shapely algebra breakthrough wins million-dollar prize

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Pattern master wins million-dollar mathematics prize

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Pattern master wins million-dollar mathematics prize

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Exotic sphere discoverer wins mathematical 'Nobel'

A mathematician who founded the field of differential topology has been awarded the $1 million dollar Abel prize

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Prizewinning math could reveal hidden patterns in primes

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Cracking the hardest mystery of the Rubik's cube

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Grand designs: Symmetry's hidden depths

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Life begins at N = 40

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