Indian born Mathematician wins Abel Prize

Indian-born New York University professor Srinivasa S.R. Varadhan was awarded the Abel Prize in Mathematics. The award, considered to be the Nobel Prize of Mathematics, for “his fundamental contributions to probability theory”. Varadhan had done his Ph. D from ISI Calcutta and already has many awards in his sleeve including the Birkhoff Prize (1994), the Margaret and Herman Sokol Award of NYU’s Faculty of Arts and Science (1995), and the American Mathematical Society’s Leroy Steele Prize (1996), an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He will receive the Abel Prize worth $850,000 from His Majesty, King Harald V of Norway, in Oslo on May 22nd.