On May 23rd, King Harald V of Norway, will present the Abel Prize to French mathematician Yves Meyer. Each year, the prize is awarded to a laureate for "outstanding work in the field of mathematics".

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Frenchman wins prestigious prize for theory that links maths, information technology and computer science French mathematician Yves Meyer was today awarded the 2017 Abel Prize for his work on wavelets ...

Yves Meyer, who pioneered the wavelet transform that plays a central role in technologies as diverse as digital cinema and the LIGO gravitational-wave detectors, has won the 2017 Abel Prize. Awarded ...

Yves Meyer wins the Abel Prize for role in theory with data applications from digital cinema to pinpointing gravitational waves. French mathematician Yves Meyer has won the 2017 Abel Prize for his ...

The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has awarded the Abel Prize for 2017 to mathematician Yves Meyer of the Ecole normale superieure Paris-Saclay, France, for his “pivotal role in the ...

In an increasingly data-driven world, mathematical tools known as wavelets have become an indispensable way to analyze and understand information. Many researchers receive their data in the form of ...