Mikhail Gromov won the 6-million-Norwegian-kroner (US$900,000) Abel Prize last week for his work on advanced forms of geometry. The Russian expatriate holds appointments at the Institute of Advanced Scientific Studies outside Paris and the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University. The Abel committee cited Gromov for his contributions to the study of Riemannian geometry, symplectic geometry and group theory.
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