On May 23rd, King Harald V of Norway, will present the Abel Prize to French mathematician Yves Meyer. Each year, the prize is awarded to a laureate for "outstanding work in the field of mathematics".

Update: The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, and John M. Martinis “for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation ...

A strong contender is wavelet theory, a mathematical framework that powers image and video compression across the digital universe.Belgian physicist Ingrid Daubechies and French mathematicians ...