{"id":160829,"date":"2023-03-22T22:26:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T03:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/abel-prize-pioneer-of-smooth-physics-wins-top-maths-award"},"modified":"2023-03-22T22:26:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T03:26:00","slug":"abel-prize-pioneer-of-smooth-physics-wins-top-maths-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/abel-prize-pioneer-of-smooth-physics-wins-top-maths-award","title":{"rendered":"Abel Prize: pioneer of \u2018smooth\u2019 physics wins top maths award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/abel-prize-pioneer-of-smooth-physics-wins-top-maths-award2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Argentinian-born mathematician Luis Caffarelli has won the 2023 Abel Prize \u2014 one of the most coveted awards in mathematics \u2014 for his work on equations that are important for describing physical phenomena, such as how ice melts and fluids flow. He is the first person born in South America to win the award.<\/p>\n<p>Caffarelli\u2019s results \u201care technically virtuous, covering many different areas of mathematics and its applications\u201d, says a statement by Helge Holden, a mathematician at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim who chairs the Abel Committee.<\/p>\n<p>The winner says receiving the news was an emotional moment, because \u201cit shows that people have some appreciation for me and for my science\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Argentinian-born mathematician Luis Caffarelli has won the 2023 Abel Prize \u2014 one of the most coveted awards in mathematics \u2014 for his work on equations that are important for describing physical phenomena, such as how ice melts and fluids flow. He is the first person born in South America to win the award. Caffarelli\u2019s results [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,2229,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-mathematics","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160829","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}