Canadian mathematician wins Abel Prize

OSLO: Canadian mathematician Robert Langlands on Tuesday won the prestigious Abel Prize for developing a programme connecting representation theory to number theory, Norway´s Academy of Sciences and Letters said. “The programme has enlisted hundreds of the world´s best mathematicians over the last 50 years. No other project in modern mathematics has as wide a scope, has produced so many deep results, and has so many people working on it,” the Academy said in a statement.