The Abel Prize in Mathematics for the year 2007 has been awarded this year to Chennai, India born Srinivasa S R Vardhan
(pictured alongside).
The Abel Prize is the closest that Mathematics has to the Nobel Prize. It was instituted in the year 2002 by the Norwegian Government.
Vardhan currently teaches at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, the leading institution in the field of Applied Mathematics.
Coincidentally, the 2005 prize also went to a faculty of the Courant Institute , Peter Lax.
Though Vardhan has been based out of America for the last 40 years, Indians around the world would still be proud of his achievement. Our congratulations to Vardhan on this feat.