Grad School Alum Furstenberg Wins 2007 Wolf Prize in Mathematics (news item)

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<p><a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=119596%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=119596&lt;/a> = announcement
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Furstenberg%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Furstenberg&lt;/a> = bio
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_Prize%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_Prize&lt;/a> = regarding the Wolf Prize
<a href="http://www.math.princeton.edu/index.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.math.princeton.edu/index.html&lt;/a> = math at Princeton</p>

<p>The 2007 Wolf Prize in mathematics (generally considered second only to the Fields Medal in math) has just been awarded to Harry Furstenberg (Princeton PhD 1958). Furstenberg is currently a professor at Hebrew University of Jerusalem.</p>

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<p>What a beast.</p>