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It is customary for Abel prize winners to write a brief biography in these volumes, and I have done the same below. Writing it, the shortcomings of such an account quickly became apparent. Condensing a person, result, event, experience, or a lesson learned (and there are quite a few of these below) into a sentence or two, leaves so much to be desired and feels like doing an injustice to their meaning for me. But, it had to be done, so here goes.
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Wigderson, A. (2024). Avi Wigderson — a short biography. In: Holden, H., Piene, R. (eds) The Abel Prize 2018-2022. The Abel Prize. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-33973-8_18
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