2010 Fields Prize Winners
The list of the 2010 Fields Prize Winners is now available on the web. There are two articles, The laudations and The work profile, that introduce each of the winners and throw light on their mathematics. The laudations is an extensive math biography, the work profile is a popular rendition of the winner's achievement.
This is the first time that an Israeli mathematician has been awarded a Fields Prize. Elon Lindenstrauss, Mathematics Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, was awarded the prize for his results on measure rigidity in ergodic theory, and their applications to number theory.
There is a broadly shared opinion that another Israeli mathematician - Oded Schramm - would have awarded a 2002 Fileds Prize had he been born three weeks later. The Prize, as is well known, is only given to the mathematicians under the age of 40. Oded Schramm died in a mountaineering accident at Guye Peak, near Snoqualmie Pass, in Washington State, in 2008.
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