Japanese Mathematician Masaki Kashiwara Wins the 2025 Abel Prize.

Awards

In March 2025, the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters announced renowned Japanese mathematician Masaki Kashiwara (78 years old) as the winner of the 2025 Abel Prize in Oslo, Norway.


      - He received this award for his fundamental contributions to algebraic analysis and representation theory, specifically for the development of the theory of D-modules and the discovery of crystal bases.

      - With this, Masaki Kashiwara becomes the first Japanese person to be awarded the Abel Prize, also known as the "Nobel Prize for Mathematics," and the 28th recipient of this prestigious honor in the field of mathematics.

     

Main Point :-   (i) Norway's King Harald V will officially present the Abel Prize to Masaki Kashiwara during an award ceremony scheduled to be held on May 20, 2025, in Oslo, Norway.

      (ii) The recipient of the award receives a cash prize of 7.5 million Norwegian Krone (NoK), equivalent to USD 710,000, along with a glass plaque designed by Norwegian artist Henrik Haugan.

(iii) The prize is awarded annually by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters on behalf of the Ministry of Education (Norway).

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