French mathematician Yves Meyer has won the 2017 Abel Prize for his “pivotal role” in establishing the theory of wavelets — data-analysis tools used in everything from pinpointing gravitational waves to compressing digital films.
Wavelet-based computer algorithms are among the standard tools used by researchers to process, analyse and store information. They also have applications in medical diagnostics, where they can help to speed up magnetic resonance imaging, for example; and in entertainment, to encode high-resolution films into files of manageable size.
Source & further reading:https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/wavelet-theory-nets-top-mathematics-award/
Article:https://www.quantamagazine.org/20170321-yves-meyer-abel-prize/
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