Abel Prize

King Harald handed this year's Abel Prize in mathematics to Srinivasa SR Varadhan, an Indian-born professor at New York University who's an expert on probabiity.King Harald and Queen Sonja have taken an active interest in the prize, which was established by the Norwegian Parliament in 2002 to mark the 200th anniversary of Abel's birth. It includes a cash prize of NOK 6 million this year (about USD 1 million).