His Majesty King Harald of Norway participated Monday in the award ceremony for the prestigious Abel Prize. The Abel Prize for 2018 was awarded to Professor Robert Langlands, the man behind the programme that connects representation theory and numerical theory mathematics at a very high level.
His Majesty the King received the prize winner in an audience at the Royal Palace before handing out the award in the official ceremony. The ceremony was held in the hall in one of the University of Oslo’s oldest buildings near the Royal Palace in the Oslo city centre.
The Abel Prize is essential within the Norwegian Academy, and there will be a number of events in the coming week related to the prize. The celebration of the Abel Prize began on Sunday. Then, flowers were laid down on the monument dedicated to Abel, which is in the Palace Park, which is located around Royal Palace in Oslo.
University of Oslo’s oldest buildings. Photo: Wolfmann via Wikimedia Commons.
Before the award winner met the King in the audience, a lunch was held on the University of Oslo’s campus at Blindern. By Monday evening, it was time to celebrate the award. His Majesty the King participated in a dinner held in Oslo Town Hall to celebrate Professor Robert Langlands. At the University of Oslo, there were separate celebrations that everyone could attend.
Abel Prize winner Robert Langlands held a lecture at the University of Oslo on Tuesday.
The Abel Prize is awarded annually to international researchers who have excelled in the field of mathematics. The prize is awarded by the Norwegian Academy of Sciences, and the award ceremony is always attended with at least one member of the Royal House in a ceremony at the University of Oslo. The price is six million crowns (around 1 million US dollars).
Niels Henrik Abel. Illustration by Johan Gørbitz / University of Oslo via Wikimedia Commons.
The award winner is elected by the Abel Committee, which consists of internationally renowned mathematicians. The Abel Prize is named after Norwegian mathematician Niels Henrik Abel. Niels Abel solved different mathematical problems that others had been struggling for hundreds of years.
The Abel monument is a sculpture created by Gustav Vigeland and built in 1908 at Abelhaugen, a height southwest in the Palace Park in Oslo, in memory of the Norwegian mathematician Niels Henrik Abel (1802-1829).
