Hillel Furstenberg (left) and Gregory Margulis were jointly awarded the 2020 Abel Prize. (Yosef Adest, Dan Renzetti)
Abel prize for finding order in chaos
Two mathematicians who used randomness to cast new light on the certainties of mathematics will share the 2020 Abel Prize — one of the field’s most prestigious awards. Hillel Furstenberg and Gregory Margulis won “for pioneering the use of methods from probability and dynamics in group theory, number theory and combinatorics”, the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters announced today. Each of them bridged gaps between diverse areas of maths, solving problems that had seemed beyond reach.
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