Latsis prize awarded to mathematician Uffe Haagerup

The European Science Foundation has awarded the 14th European Latsis Prize to Danish mathematician Uffe Haagerup for his work on operator algebras, an area of pure mathematics with applications in theoretical physics.

Haagerup said he was honoured to receive the prize. Describing his passion for mathematics, he said: “Since the age of 10 I would join a friend of the family, a land surveyor, at work and help him to measure fields and learned about sine and cosine long before I studied these at school.”