Demetrios Christodoulou, a mathematician and physicist at ETH Zurich, won the award of “Asia’s Nobel Prize” that honours Christodoulou’s highly innovative works on nonlinear partial differential equations and their applications to general relativity and topology.
The presentation ceremony was held on the 28th of September at the Convention and Exhibition Center of Hong Kong, where the professor received his award with 1 million dollars.
“In mathematics, there are not any Nobel Prizes”, Christodoulou underlined and added:”The most significant are Shaw Prize and Abel Prize of Norway, that were established in 2003 and 2004 respectively. Previously, there was not anything equivalent, except for the Fields Medal, a prize awarded to two, three, or four mathematicians not over 40 years of age”.
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