Beautiful Minds: NYU Courant Professor Nirenberg, Princeton's John Nash Win Abel Prize in Mathematics
Wednesday, March 25, 2015 - 07:00
in Mathematics & Economics
Louis Nirenberg, a professor emeritus at NYU's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, has been awarded the Abel Prize in Mathematics by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters for his work in the area of partial differential equations. Nirenberg shares this year's Abel Prize with Princeton University's John Nash, the subject of the 2001 film "A Beautiful Mind."