Luis Caffarelli's work includes equations underpinning physical phenomena, such as melting ice and flowing liquids
Argentinian-born mathematician Luis Caffarelli has won the 2023 Abel Prize — one of the most coveted awards in mathematics — for his work on equations that are important for describing physical phenomena, such as how ice melts and fluids flow. He is the first person born in South America to win the award.
Caffarelli was born in Buenos Aires in 1948. After earning his PhD, he moved to the United States in 1973 and spent the rest of his career at various institutions there, including the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. He is now at the University of Texas at Austin. For another celebrated paper, Caffarelli joined forces in 1982 with the late Louis Nirenberg, the 2015 Abel laureate, and Robert Kohn, who is at New York University, to attack one of the most notorious problems in mathematical physics — the regularity of the motion of fluids, as described by the standard theory of fluid dynamics, known as the Navier–Stokes equations.
“People say, ‘How did he come up with that one?’ He can come up with results that people didn’t anticipate,” says Holden.
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