The Royal Dutch Mathematical Society (KWG) awards the Brouwer Medal 2014 to American mathematician John N. Mather (1942) from Princeton University. The medal is awarded only once every three years to a mathematician of the highest international level. The medal will be presented during the 50th Dutch Mathematical Congress (NMC) in Delft on 16 April.
CWI has been sponsoring the Royal Dutch Mathematical Society for a long time.
More information:
- the full press release from the Koninklijk Wiskundige Genootschap (in Dutch)
- the 50th Dutch Mathematical Congress (NMC)
- the list of winners of the Brouwer Prize
Picture: mathematician John N. Mather, source: Archives of the Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach.
