"Copenhagen," about quantum physics and the atomic bomb, and "Proof," about the travails of a mathematician, have won Tony Awards.
This marks the second time in three years an NYU mathematician has won the Abel Prize.
For the first time in its 78-year history, a female mathematician has won the Fields Medal, the discipline's most prestigious prize.
Berkeley Lab mathematicians James Sethian and Robert Saye have won the 2011 Cozzarelli Prize for the best scientific paper in the category of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
Dr. Griffiths, for example, will join a cadre of other distinguished mathematicians who have won many awards, including four Fields Medals, the equivalent of Nobel Prizes, which are not given for mathematics.
Now two Erdös fans have shown that all the mathematicians who have won the prestigious Fields Medal have a collaboration trail that leads to Erdös.
Considering the list of past mathematicians who have won the Crafoord Prize, Kontsevich says, "it's a great honor to be among them".
The latest effort, appearing in the December issue of the journal of the Columbian Academy of Sciences, shows that all 42 mathematicians who have won the Fields medal--mathematics' highest honor--have some connection to Erdös, and usually a close one.
Three Oxford mathematicians, Michael Atiyah, Daniel Quillen and Simon Donaldson, have won Fields Medals, often called the "Nobel Prize for mathematics".
Three Yale faculty members — mathematician Hee Oh, poet Claudia Rankine, and historian Timothy Snyder — have won 2017 Guggenheim Fellowships.
