The Abel, named after Norwegian mathematician Niels Hendrik Abel, is set up more like the Nobels. Uhlenbeck showed that the problem was not unsolvable everywhere, although at a finite number of points, the calculations would not converge. “That was almost more unnerving” than being the first woman to receive an Abel, Uhlenbeck said. Uhlenbeck said she recognised that she was a role model for women who followed her in mathematics. “Like many people in my generation,” Uhlenbeck said, “my role model was Julia Child.”©2019 New York Times News Service

Source: bd News24 March 21, 2019 06:56 UTC