“American Mathematical Society Honors Three at Princeton” (news item)

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<p>[American</a> Mathematical Society 2008 Awards](<a href=“http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-01/ams-ams121907.php]American”>http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-01/ams-ams121907.php)</p>

<p>The American Mathematical Society has just announced its 2008 awards. Princeton was recognized with awards for two faculty members and a student. One scholar each was honored at CalTech, Harvard, MIT, Ohio State, Penn State and Rutgers.</p>

<p>Princeton’s honorees for 2008 are as follows:</p>

<p>AMS Maxime Bocher Memorial Prize: CHARLES FEFFERMAN of Princeton University, for his many fundamental contributions to various areas of analysis.</p>

<p>AMS Frank Nelson Cole Prize in Number Theory: MANJUL BHARGAVA of Princeton University, for his revolutionary work on higher composition laws.</p>

<p>AMS-MAA-SIAM Frank and Brennie Morgan Prize for Outstanding Research in Mathematics by an Undergraduate Student: NATHAN KAPLAN, a student at Princeton University and at the University of Cambridge, for having written four impressive research papers in algebraic number theory, three of which have been accepted for publication.</p>

<p>Nathan, an outstanding math student at Princeton, graduated with the Class of 2007, is currently at Cambridge and will be completing his PhD in Math at Harvard.</p>

<p>More about Princeton’s Math Department can be found here:</p>

<p>[Mathematics</a> Department - Princeton University - Undergraduate](<a href=“http://www.math.princeton.edu/undergraduate/]Mathematics”>Undergraduate Program | Math)</p>

<p>Information for applicants interested in majoring in math can be found here:</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.math.princeton.edu/undergraduate/MathMajorsInfo.pdf[/url]”>http://www.math.princeton.edu/undergraduate/MathMajorsInfo.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>These two mathematicians certainly deserve the honors. They say few mathematicians are able to produce sensational research works after the age of 35, their golden age, however, it seems that this is not true or at least Fefferman was an exception. His Whitney’s extension problem paper is extremely technical. Bhargava is a rising star</p>