The Abel Prize 2008-2012 [Hardcover]

Covering the years 2008-2012, this book?profiles?the life and work of recent winners of the Abel Prize:
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?? ? ? ???John G. Thompson and Jacques Tits, 2008
?? ? ? ???Mikhail?Gromov, 2009
?? ? ? ???John T. Tate Jr., 2010
?? ? ? ???John W. Milnor, 2011
?? ? ? ???Endre Szemer?di, 2012.

The profiles feature autobiographical information as well as a description of each mathematician's work. In addition, each profile contains a complete bibliography, a curriculum vitae, as well as photos  old and new. As an added feature,?interviews with the Laureates are presented on an accompanying web site (http://extras.springer.com/).

The book also presents a ?history of the Abel Prize written by the historian Kim Helsvig, and includes a facsimile of a?letter from Niels Henrik Abel, which is transcribed, translated into English, and placed into historical perspective?by Christian Skau.

This book follows on?The Abel Prize: 2003-2007, The First Five Years?(Springer, 2010), which profiles the work of the first Abel Prize winners.

Preface.- K.G. Helsvig: The Abel Prize  the Missing Nobel in Mathematics.-?2008 John G. Thompson and Jacques Tits: J.G.Thompson: Some Reflections.-?R. Lyons and R.M.Guralnick: The Work of John Griggs Tompson: A Survey.- List of Publications for John G. Thompson.- Curriculum Vitae for John G. Thompson.- F. Buekenhout: A biography of Jacques Tits.- F. Buekenhout: A Report on the Scientific Contributions of Jacques Tits.- List of Publications.- Curriculum Vitae.- 2009 Misha Gromov: M.Gromov: A Few Recollections.- D.Burago,?and Ya. Eliashberg (Eds.): A Few Snapshots From the Work of Mikhail Gromov.- List of Publications.- Curriculum Vitae.- 2010 John T. Tate Jr.:?J.Tate: An Autobiography.- J.S. Milne: The Work of John Tate.- List of Publications.- Curriculum Vitae.lS4