By Juliette Collen For Michel Talagrand, who won the Abel mathematics prize on Wednesday, maths provided a fun life free from all constraints — and an escape from the eye problems he suffered as a child. “Maths, the more you do it, the easier it gets,” the 72-year-old said in an interview with AFP. He is the fifth French Abel winner since the award was created by Norway’s government in 2003 to compensate for the […]