math award

An Indian mathematician has been named the co-winner of the King Faisal International prize for 2006, in recognition of his path-breaking research which has strengthened links between mathematics and physics. India's MS Narasimhan, an honorary fellow at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Mumbai, shares the prize with UK's Simon Kirwan Donaldson, president of the Institute of Mathematical Sciences and professor of mathematics at Imperial College, London for seminal contributions to math which also helped provide a foundation for physical theories. The two mathematicians' work has helped establish strong ties with the formulation of quantum chromodynamics for which the King Faisal Prize in physics was given last year, the Foundation said.