Kashiwara's research, Abel Prize winner, explained by D'Agnolo

23.05.2025

The prestigious Abel Prize – often referred to as the Nobel Prize of Mathematics – was awarded in Oslo to Masaki Kashiwara, a professor at Kyoto University, known as the mathematician who "abstracted abstractions."

Following the award presentation by the King of Norway, three distinguished mathematicians were invited to explain Kashiwara’s exceptional contributions to mathematics in a way accessible to the general public.

Among them was Italian mathematician Andrea D'Agnolo, a professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Padua, who had jointly won the Frontiers of Science Award with Masaki Kashiwara last year.

Andrea D'Agnolo engaged the audience by explaining one of Kashiwara’s major achievements: the Riemann-Hilbert Correspondence, an analytical bridge between algebra and topology.