Abel price
The Abel Prize (based on Niels Henrik Abel ) has been awarded annually since 2003 by the Norwegian Academy of Sciences as an international award for exceptional scientific work in the field of mathematics . It is endowed with 6 million Norwegian kroner (around 600,000 euros ). On the occasion of Abel's 200th birthday, the Norwegian government set up a foundation to award the award in 2002.
The award committee consists of five people. The award ceremony will take place in the presence of the Norwegian king . Its counterpart in the humanities is the Holberg Prize . In contrast to the Fields Medal, there is no age restriction for the winner, which means that this prize is a bit closer to the equivalent of the Nobel Prize than the Fields Medal.
Award winners
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2003 |
Jean-Pierre Serre (* 1926) |
Collège de France | for his key role in shaping the modern form of many areas of mathematics, including topology , algebraic geometry, and number theory |
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2004 |
Michael Francis Atiyah (1929-2019) |
University of Edinburgh | for the discovery and proof of the index theorem , which combines topology , geometry and analysis , and its prominent role in bridging the gap between mathematics and theoretical physics |
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Isadore M. Singer (* 1924) |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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2005 |
Peter Lax (* 1926) |
New York University | for his groundbreaking contributions to the theory and application of partial differential equations and their numerical solution |
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2006 |
Lennart Carleson (* 1928) |
Royal Stockholm University of Technology | for his profound, forward-looking contributions to harmonic analysis and the theory of smooth dynamic systems |
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2007 |
SR Srinivasa Varadhan (* 1940) |
New York University | for his fundamental contribution to probability theory , in particular for creating a unified theory for large deviations |
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2008 |
John Griggs Thompson (* 1932) |
University of Florida | for their fundamental contributions to algebra and particularly to the development of modern group theory |
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Jacques Tits (* 1930) |
Collège de France |
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2009 |
Mikhail Gromov (* 1943) |
Institute des Hautes Études Scientifiques | for his revolutionary contributions to geometry |
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2010 |
John T. Tate (1925-2019) |
University of Texas at Austin | for its great and lasting influence on number theory |
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2011 |
John Milnor (born 1931) |
Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Stony Brook University , New York | for groundbreaking discoveries in topology , geometry and algebra |
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2012 |
Endre Szemerédi (* 1940) |
Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest and Department of Computer Science, Rutgers University , New Jersey, USA | for his fundamental contributions to discrete mathematics and theoretical computer science and in recognition of the profound and enduring influence of these contributions on additive number theory and ergodic theory |
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2013 |
Pierre Deligne (* 1944) |
Institute for Advanced Study , Princeton, New Jersey, USA | for his very important contributions to algebraic geometry and for the fundamental influence of these contributions on number theory, representation theory and related fields |
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2014 |
Jakow Sinai (* 1935) |
Princeton University and Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics | for his fundamental contributions to dynamic systems, ergodic theory and mathematical physics |
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2015 |
John Forbes Nash Jr. (1928-2015) |
Princeton University | for their impressive and fundamental contributions to the theory of nonlinear partial differential equations and their applications to geometric analysis |
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Louis Nirenberg (1925-2020) |
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University |
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2016 |
Andrew Wiles (* 1953) |
University of Oxford | for his spectacular proof of Fermat's Great Theorem through the modularity conjecture for semi-stable elliptic curves, with which he opened a new age in number theory. |
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2017 |
Yves Meyer (* 1939) |
École normal supérieure Paris-Saclay, France | for its central role in the development of the mathematical theory of wavelets . |
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2018 |
Robert P. Langlands (* 1936) |
Institute for Advanced Study , Princeton, USA | for his visionary program, which combines representation theory with number theory. |
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2019 |
Karen Uhlenbeck (* 1942) |
University of Texas at Austin | for her pioneering work in geometric partial differential equations, gauge theory and integrable systems as well as for the fundamental effects of her work on analysis, geometry and mathematical physics. |
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2020 |
Hillel Fürstenberg (* 1935) |
Hebrew University of Jerusalem | for a pioneering role in the use of methods from probability theory and dynamic systems in group theory, number theory and combinatorics. |
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Grigori Alexandrowitsch Margulis (* 1946) |
Yale University |
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Web links
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- The Abel Prize website (English)