Question

Robert Langlands, who has won the $2018$ Abel Prize, is belong to which country?

• A. Canada
• B. United States
• C. Brazil
• D. Australia

Answer 1

Answer: (A)

Canada

Canadian mathematician Robert P. Langlands has won the prestigious Abel Prize $2018$ for his visionary programme connecting representation theory to number theory. The $81$-year-old mathematician received the award from Norway's King Harald V at an award ceremony in Oslo on May $22,2018$. The prize is awarded by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and is worth $6$ million Norwegian krone (about $550,000$). It is considered by many to be a maths equivalent of the Nobel Prize, which has no prize for mathematics. The prize is named after the $19$th century Norwegian mathematician Niels Henrik Abel and is awarded annually since $2003$.