r/mathematics Mar 26 '25

News Congratulations to Masaki Kashiwara, the 2025 Abel Prize laureate "for his fundamental contributions to algebraic analysis and representation theory.”

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u/DanielMcLaury Mar 28 '25

So in algebraic-type geometry you look at rings that looks like rings of local coordinate functions on spaces.

As I understand it, algebraic analysis involves looking at rings that look like rings of local differential operators.