Maryam Mirzakhani Prize in Mathematics

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The Maryam Mirzakhani Prize in Mathematics (until 2012 National Academy of Sciences Award in Mathematics, NAS Award in Mathematics) is a science award in the field of mathematics awarded by the National Academy of Sciences of the United States since 1988 every four years . The award refers to outstanding scientific achievements of the previous ten years. The award was donated by the American Mathematical Society on the occasion of its centenary and was endowed with 5,000 US dollars (as of 2012). In 2018 it was given its current name in memory of Maryam Mirzakhani and is to be awarded with a higher endowment and every two years.

Award winners

  • 1988 Robert P. Langlands : For his extraordinary vision, which has brought the theory of group representations into a revolutionary new relationship with the theory of automorphic forms and number theory.
  • 1992 Robert MacPherson : For his role in the introduction and application of radically new approaches to the topology of singular spaces, including characteristics classes, intersection homology, perverse sheaves, and stratified Morse theory.
  • 1996 Andrew J. Wiles : For his proof of Fermat's Last Theorem by discovering a beautiful strategy to establish a major portion of the Shimura-Taniyama conjecture, and for his courage and technical power in bringing his idea to completion.
  • 2000 Ingrid Daubechies : For fundamental discoveries on wavelets and wavelet expansions and for her role in making wavelet methods a practical basic tool of applied mathematics.
  • 2004 Dan-Virgil Voiculescu : For the theory of free probability, in particular, using random matrices and a new concept of entropy to solve several hitherto intractable problems in von Neumann algebras.
  • 2008 Clifford H. Taubes : For groundbreaking work relating to Seiberg-Witten and Gromov-Witten invariants of symplectic 4-manifolds, and his proof of Weinstein conjecture for all contact 3-manifolds.
  • 2012 Michael J. Hopkins : For his leading role in the development of homotopy theory, which has both reinvigorated algebraic topology as a central field in mathematics and led to the resolution of the Kervaire invariant problem for framed manifolds.
  • No award in 2016
  • 2020 Larry Guth : For developing surprising, original, and deep connections between geometry, analysis, topology, and combinatorics, which have led to the solution of, or major advances on, many outstanding problems in these fields.

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