Karl Georg Christian von Staudt Prize

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The Karl-Georg-Christian von Staudt Prize , or Staudt Prize for short, is a German mathematicians prize that is awarded every three to six years. The prize can be awarded to one or more mathematicians who work at a German university or research institution, provided the stay is not temporary. "Outstanding, pioneering and published research results in the field of theoretical mathematics " are awarded.

The award is named after Karl Georg Christian von Staudt , who held the chair for mathematics at the University of Erlangen . The founder of the share capital for the prize money is the Otto-und-Edith-Haupt-Stiftung. Otto Haupt was one of Staudt's successors on the chair in Erlangen. According to the original statutes, the prize was endowed with at least DM 50,000; in 2004, a total of EUR 30,000 was distributed to the two winners. The current statutes (as of 2014) provide for prize money of 25,000 euros.

Award winners

  • 1991 Hans Grauert for his work in the field of complex function theory
  • 1994 Stefan Hildebrandt for his complete works on the calculus of variations
  • 1997 Martin Kneser for his contributions to the theory of quadratic forms
  • 2001 Don Zagier for his work on number theory
  • 2004 Günter Harder for his work on the theory of algebraic groups and Friedhelm Waldhausen for his results on three-dimensional manifolds and the algebraic K-theory
  • 2008 Gerd Faltings for his outstanding achievements in the field of theoretical mathematics, for the evidence of numerous conjectures of arithmetic geometry and for his research on the cohomology and the theory of vector bundles on curves.
  • 2013 Michael Rapoport in recognition of his groundbreaking work on arithmetic geometry and related fields

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Staudt Prize 2008 goes to director of the Max Planck Institute in Bonn at idw-online.de
  2. ↑ Karl Georg Christian von Staudt Award 2013 at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (fau.de); Retrieved November 9, 2012