(JTA) Marcy Oster - Hillel Furstenberg, 84, and Gregory Margulis, 74, have won the Abel Prize for mathematics, the equivalent of a Nobel, it was announced Monday. While there is no Nobel for mathematics, the Abel has been given out annually by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters since 2003. Furstenberg, a Berlin native, was on the faculty of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem from 1965 to 2003. Margulis, a Moscow native, took a position at Yale in 1991.
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