英国剑桥大学古老数学奖项亚当斯奖揭晓

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作者：梅进（编译）

英国剑桥大学著名的古老数学奖项——亚当斯奖（Adams Prize）2011年获奖名单揭晓，

英国布里斯托尔大学的Harald Helfgott和剑桥大学的Tom Sanders分享该奖。今年的

奖项主题是“离散数学或数论”，奖金约为1.4万英镑。

亚当斯奖以著名数学家John Couch Adams的名字命名，为纪念他发现海王星，于1848

年由剑桥大学圣?约翰学院成员捐资成立。每年由剑桥大学数学系和圣?约翰学院联合

授奖。获奖者必须为在英国从事科研者，年龄一般为40岁以内。

剑桥大学网站相关报道（英文）

2011 Adams Prize winner announced

24 February 2011

The University of Cambridge has announced the winner of one of its oldest

and most prestigious prizes, the Adams Prize.The Adams Prize is awarded

jointly each year by the Faculty of Mathematics and St Johns College to

a young (normally under 40 years of age), UKbased researcher doing first

class international research in mathematical sciences.

This years topic was "Discrete Mathematics or Number Theory", and the Prize

has been awarded jointly to Professor Harald Helfgott of the University of

Bristol and Dr Tom Sanders of the University of Cambridge.

Professor Arieh Iserles, Chairman of the Adams Prize Adjudicators, said: "The

work of both this years winners has transformed our understanding of important

topics in analytic number theory. They have each introduced new methodologies

and techniques in applying deep tools from analysis in number theory their resu

lts have already fostered much new research of worlds leading mathematicians.

"Harald Helfgotts work is a major breakthrough in understanding expanders in

general groups, a major problem in additive combinatorics. Tom Sanders employed

deep harmonic analysis to understand arithmetic progressions and answering long

standing conjectures in number theory.

"This is the place to pay tribute to a large number of very strong candidates in

discrete mathematics and number theory, whom we have been considering this year.

The sheer breadth and strength of this years entries attests to the impressive

standards of this subject in the United Kingdom, in particular among young and

upandcoming mathematicians."

The Adams Prize is named after the mathematician John Couch Adams and was endowed

by members of St Johns College. It is currently worth approximately ￡14,000. It

commemorates Adamss discovery of the planet Neptune, through calculation of the

discrepancies in the orbit of Uranus.

Previous winners have included many well known mathematicians including James Clerk

Maxwell and Sir William Hodge.