{"id":120654,"date":"2021-03-17T22:22:17","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T05:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/abel-prize-celebrates-union-of-mathematics-and-computer-science"},"modified":"2021-03-17T22:22:17","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T05:22:17","slug":"abel-prize-celebrates-union-of-mathematics-and-computer-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/abel-prize-celebrates-union-of-mathematics-and-computer-science","title":{"rendered":"Abel Prize celebrates union of mathematics and computer science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/abel-prize-celebrates-union-of-mathematics-and-computer-science2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hungarian mathematician L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Lov\u00e1sz and Israeli computer scientist Avi Wigderson will share the prize, worth 7.5 million Norwegian kroner (US$886000), \u201cfor their foundational contributions to theoretical computer science and discrete mathematics, and their leading role in shaping them into central fields of modern mathematics\u201d, the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters announced on 17 March.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The work of winners L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Lov\u00e1sz and Avi Wigderson underpins applications from Internet security to the study of networks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hungarian mathematician L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Lov\u00e1sz and Israeli computer scientist Avi Wigderson will share the prize, worth 7.5 million Norwegian kroner (US$886000), \u201cfor their foundational contributions to theoretical computer science and discrete mathematics, and their leading role in shaping them into central fields of modern mathematics\u201d, the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters announced on 17 March. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,418,2229,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-internet","category-mathematics","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}