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An American and a French citizen accepted the $1.2 million Abel Prize for mathematics Tuesday at a ceremony praising their achievements.
Norway’s King Harald V presented the award to John Griggs Thompson, 75, who teaches at the University of Florida, and Belgian-born Jacques Tits, 77, a professor emeritus at College de France in Paris.
Abel Committee Chairman Kristian Seip said they shared the prize “for their outstanding achievements in algebra and especially for their shaping of modern group theory.”
The theory can solve such everyday challenges as a Rubik’s Cube, or be used in physics, computer science and geometry.
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