Rolf Schock – uniting philosophy, mathematics, music and art
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the the Royal Swedish Academy of Music and the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts, have decided to award the Rolf Schock Prizes 2014, amounting to a total of SEK 2.4 million, in the fields of: LOGIC AND PHILOSOPHYProfessor DEREK PARFIT, University of Oxford, UK“for his ground-breaking contributions concerning personal identity, regard for future generations and analysis of the structure of moral theories” MATHEMATICSProfessor YITANG ZHANG, University of New Hampshire, USA“for his spectacular breakthrough concerning the possibility of an