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On the bicentennial of Niels Henrik Abel’s birth in 2002, the Norwegian Government decided to establish a memorial fund of NOK 200 million. The chief purpose of the fund was to lay the financial groundwork for an annual international prize of NOK 6 million to one or more mathematicians for outstanding scientific work. The prize was awarded for the first time in 2003.
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Stubhaug, A. (2010). The History of the Abel Prize. In: Holden, H., Piene, R. (eds) The Abel Prize. The Abel Prize. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01373-7_1
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