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Blaise Pascal Medal awarded to the Member of the Academy of Athens, Professor at the University of Cambridge, and Honorary Professor of NKUA, Athanasios Fokas

Blaise Pascal Medal awarded to the Member of the Academy of Athens, Professor at the University of Cambridge, and Honorary Professor of NKUA, Athanasios Fokas
24.01.2024 - 14.17

The European Academy of Sciences awarded the Blaise Pascal Medal in Mathematics to the Member of the Academy of Athens, Professor at the University of Cambridge, and Honorary Professor of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Dr Athanasios Fokas, during a ceremony held at the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences in Madrid, Spain.

Athanassios S. Fokas EurASc, Madrid
Athanasios Fokas
Athanassios S. Fokas EurASc, Madrid

According to the Academy’s citation, the transformative Fokas method ‘is the most important development in the solution of partial differential equations since Fourier, Laplace, and Cauchy’.

Another important achievement was the election of Professor Fokas in the Mathematics section of Academia Europaea (The Academy of Europe). He and the eminent scientist, Dr Demetrios Christodoulou, are the only Greek mathematicians to become members of the Mathematics section of Academia Europaea.

The people in the photo are the President and the Vice-President of the European Academy of Sciences and the President of the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences

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Jesús M. Sanz Serna, Rodrigo Martins, Athanasios Fokas, Alain Tressaud

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