Frenchman Michel Talagrand is the 2024 winner of one of the most prestigious awards in mathematics.
A French mathematician who says maths "gives you wings" has been awarded the Abel Prize - one of the most prestigious honours in the field.
Mr Talagrand, who is now retired, is the fifth Frenchman to win the prize since it was founded in 2003. He spent a decade studying functional analysis before turning to probability, where he worked on understanding Gaussian distribution or the "bell curve". "You can fail to solve a problem 10 times, but that doesn't matter if you succeed on the 11th try," he said.
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