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Guth is receiving the $20,000 prize 'for developing surprising, original, and deep connections between geometry, analysis, topology, and combinatorics, which have led to the solution of, or major advances on, many outstanding problems in these fields.'
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- ↑ Jackson, Allyn (May 2004), "Voiculescu Receives NAS Award in Mathematics" (PDF), Notices of the American Mathematical Society , 51 (5): 547.
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