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".

A French mathematician known for his pioneering work on a theory used for applications ranging from image compression to the detection of gravitational waves from the merging of black holes has earned ...

Yves Meyer, who pioneered the wavelet transform that plays a central role in technologies as diverse as digital cinema and the LIGO gravitational-wave detectors, has won the 2017 Abel Prize. Awarded ...

The French mathematician Yves Meyer, a self-described “nomad” who has made deep contributions to the many subfields through which he has roamed over the past half-century, received the 2017 Abel Prize ...

Frenchman wins prestigious prize for theory that links maths, information technology and computer science French mathematician Yves Meyer was today awarded the 2017 Abel Prize for his work on wavelets ...

The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has awarded the Abel Prize for 2017 to mathematician Yves Meyer of the Ecole normale superieure Paris-Saclay, France, for his “pivotal role in the ...

Yves Meyer wins the Abel Prize for development of a theory with applications ranging from watching movies to detecting gravitational waves French mathematician Yves Meyer has won the 2017 Abel Prize ...

In an increasingly data-driven world, mathematical tools known as wavelets have become an indispensable way to analyze and understand information. Many researchers receive their data in the form of ...

The 2017 Abel Prize in Mathematics has been awarded to Yves Meyer of the École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay. Established in 2002, the prize honors one of Norway's most famous mathematicians, Niels ...

Built upon the ubiquitous Fourier transform, the mathematical tools known as wavelets allow unprecedented analysis and understanding of continuous signals. In an increasingly data-driven world, ...