https://www.sciencealert.com/prestigious-abel-maths-prize-has-been-awarded-for-random-walk-probability-techniques
>The Abel Prize for mathematics was on Wednesday awarded to (((Israeli-American Hillel Furstenberg))) and (((Russian-born Gregory Margulis))), both probability experts, the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters said.
>The pair were honoured "for pioneering the use of methods from probability and dynamics in group theory, number theory and combinatorics," the Academy said in a statement.
>Furstenberg, 84, is affiliated with the (((Hebrew University of Jerusalem))), while Margulis, a decade younger, is at Yale University.
>Born in Berlin, Furstenberg and his (((Jewish family))) fled Nazi Germany for the US just before the start of World War II.
>Margulis stood out as a math wiz early on. At age 16, he won the silver medal at the International Mathematical Olympiad, and 16 years later won the prestigious Fields Medal.
>The Soviet authorities however did not allow him to travel to Helsinki to pick up the medal because of discrimination against his (((Jewish origin))). Soviet academics were finally granted more freedom in 1979.
>The Abel Prize for mathematics was on Wednesday awarded to (((Israeli-American Hillel Furstenberg))) and (((Russian-born Gregory Margulis))), both probability experts, the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters said.
>The pair were honoured "for pioneering the use of methods from probability and dynamics in group theory, number theory and combinatorics," the Academy said in a statement.
>Furstenberg, 84, is affiliated with the (((Hebrew University of Jerusalem))), while Margulis, a decade younger, is at Yale University.
>Born in Berlin, Furstenberg and his (((Jewish family))) fled Nazi Germany for the US just before the start of World War II.
>Margulis stood out as a math wiz early on. At age 16, he won the silver medal at the International Mathematical Olympiad, and 16 years later won the prestigious Fields Medal.
>The Soviet authorities however did not allow him to travel to Helsinki to pick up the medal because of discrimination against his (((Jewish origin))). Soviet academics were finally granted more freedom in 1979.
