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Please Nominate Me for Abel Prize

I have made certain math discoveries. I deem these worth $1000000 prize (Abel Prize for mathematicians).

Please help me to receive this prize. I ask you to nominate me for this prize (to send a certain letter to the academy which controls the prize).

How to Nominate Me

If you want to help me, please write the letter to The Norwegian Academy of Science accordingly the below guidelines.

Your letter must be send either to the email abelprisen@dnva.no or to the following mail address:

Note that in order for participating in the nomination of this year, the letter should be send before September 15th. (If you send it later the nomination will be delayed to the next year. So please send it now in order for me to be nominated this year.)

The Content of the Letter

The letter shall contain at least the following information:

• my CV (copy it from below);
• the description of my math discoveries and the list of my articles (see below);
• a list of leading specialists in General Topology (see below for such a list).

If you send the nomination via email, I suggest to attach my articles (PDF files) mentioned below.

Nominee's CV

(Include this in your letter to the Academy.)

Full name

Victor Lvovich Porton

Year of birth

1980

Place of birth

city Perm, Russia

Education

Unfinished* Mechanics and Mathematics faculty of Perm State University (state Perm, Russia).

Scientific degrees

None

Teaching and research experience

No teaching experience. Research experience consists of doing research published on www.mathematics21.org Web site.

Publications

None.

* I have not finished the University because has gone to an (engineering) job.

The Description of Nominee's Math Research

Introduced new concepts of funcoids and reloids generalizing correspondingly proximity spaces and uniform spaces (Funcoids also generalize pre-topological spaces and Kuratowski closure axioms for topological spaces.) and profoundly researched their properties, so creating the most general theory in point-set topology. (Opened up a new major research area.) Both continuity and uniform continuity as well as proximity continuity are re-formulated as algebraic formulas generalizing all three kinds of continuity and hiding the epsilon-delta notion behind algebraic formulas.

See online articles:

• Funcoids and Reloids - http://www.mathematics21.org/binaries/funcoids-reloids.pdf;
• Generalized Continuousness - http://www.mathematics21.org/binaries/continuousness.pdf;
• Connectedness of Funcoids and Reloids - http://www.mathematics21.org/binaries/connectedness.pdf;
• Convergence of Funcoids - http://www.mathematics21.org/binaries/limit.pdf.

I suggest to attach the above mentioned PDF files to your nomination email.

List of math specialists

The following is a list of a few General Topology specialists. (Note that I am not personally or in any other way connected with the below specialists. I have found their names using Internet.)

• Bob Lowen and his wife, Eva Colebundes (specialists in proximity spaces);
• V.V.Fedorchuk, M.V.Smurov, Yu.V.Sadovnichii (specialists in uniform topology);
• M. Hušek and J. van Mill (authors of Recent Progress in General Topology II book);
• K.P. Hart, Jun-iti Nagata, J.E. Vaughan (authors of Encyclopedia of General Topology book);
• Hans-Peter A. K¨unzi (a specialist in quasi-uniform spaces);
• I. M. James (author of Introduction to Uniform Spaces and Topological and Uniform Spaces books);
• Ryszard Engelking (author of some works in general topology);
• John L. Kelley (author of General Topology book);
• Stephen Willard (author of General Topology book);
• Mangesh Ganesh Murdeshwar (author of General topology book);
• Horst Herrlich (specialist in categorical topology);
• Paul Taylor (inventor of Abstract Stone Duality);

Frequently Asked Questions

I must be a mathematician to nominate you, must I?

No.

What is Abel Prize?

It is an about $1000000 prize, like Nobel Prize, but for mathematicians (Nobel Prize is for other sciences).

Why you don't nominate yourself, but ask others to do this?

Abel Prize rules forbid self-nominations.

Why you want Abel Prize?

1. Having million dollars, the necessity to work to earn my living (now I work as a programmer to earn my living) will cease and I will be able to dedicate all my time to more important things including mathematics, infomation technology, and free software development.
2. Receiving Abel Prize will make my research famous among mathematicians, as it should be.

Is it OK that I nominate you after your plea to nominate rather than by my own initiative?

Yes, it is OK, as long as you do not contact me about nominating.

When to send the letter?

If possible, please send it before September 15th (if doubt send it now).

Should I notify you after I will nominate you?

No! Don't tell me that you have nominated me! It would contradict Abel Prize rules. Do not ask me any questions about Abel Prize, do not mention in any way that you are (going) to nominate me.

What if somebody other except me will nominate you?

To be sure that I will be nominated please nominate me. It will not harm if I will be nominated several times.

When and where I should send the letter?

Your letter must be send either to the email abelprisen@dnva.no or to the following mail address:

If possible, please send it before September 15th (if doubt sent it now).

What I will receive in return?

Sorry, nothing. (I can't pay you a part of money because the nominations are confidential and I shall not know that you nominated me.) Please make a goodwill to help me.

Is it significant that you have no official scientific degree?

No, this should be not important. Really I have almost finished math education in an University. (I left the University because has gone to a job.) The official Abel Prize rules do not require the nominee to have a scientific degree.

(Actually if they would use scientific degree as a criterion for selecting the laureate, it would be a serious violation of the committee rules which require other criteria such as influence of the work on the development of science, not degrees and social position what would be a clear discrimination.)

How you will use the money?

First, I promised to donate $10000 to PlanetMath site and $10000 to TeXmacs program after I will win Abel Prize.

I will put the rest of money to deposits or shares or something similar. I am also going to invest into books which I'll write.

I plan to resettle to a hotel for my basic needs to be fulfilled.

I am going to use the most of the rest of the benefit for charity (either support of poors or support of scientific/technological development or both).

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