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

year	Award winners	Institute	Reason	image
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
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
	Isadore M. Singer (* 1924)	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2005	Peter Lax (* 1926)	New York University	for his groundbreaking contributions to the theory and application of partial differential equations and their numerical solution
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
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
2008	John Griggs Thompson (* 1932)	University of Florida	for their fundamental contributions to algebra and particularly to the development of modern group theory
	Jacques Tits (* 1930)	Collège de France
2009	Mikhail Gromov (* 1943)	Institute des Hautes Études Scientifiques	for his revolutionary contributions to geometry
2010	John T. Tate (1925-2019)	University of Texas at Austin	for its great and lasting influence on number theory
2011	John Milnor (born 1931)	Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Stony Brook University , New York	for groundbreaking discoveries in topology , geometry and algebra
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
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
2014	Jakow Sinai (* 1935)	Princeton University and Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics	for his fundamental contributions to dynamic systems, ergodic theory and mathematical physics
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
	Louis Nirenberg (1925-2020)	Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University
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.
2017	Yves Meyer (* 1939)	École normal supérieure Paris-Saclay, France	for its central role in the development of the mathematical theory of wavelets .
2018	Robert P. Langlands (* 1936)	Institute for Advanced Study , Princeton, USA	for his visionary program, which combines representation theory with number theory.
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.
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.
	Grigori Alexandrowitsch Margulis (* 1946)	Yale University

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