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".
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 ...