Abel Prize
Abel Prize | |
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Government of Norway | |
First awarded | 2003 |
Website | www.abelprize.no |
The Abel Prize (
The Abel Prize's history dates back to 1899, when its establishment was proposed by the Norwegian mathematician
The award ceremony takes place in the aula of the University of Oslo, where the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded between 1947 and 1989.[9] The Abel Prize board has also established an Abel symposium, administered by the Norwegian Mathematical Society, which takes place twice a year.[10]
History
The prize was first proposed in 1899, to be part of the celebration of the 100th anniversary of
After interest in the concept of the prize had risen in 2001, a working group was formed to develop a proposal, which was presented to the Prime Minister of Norway in May. In August 2001, the Norwegian government announced that the prize would be awarded beginning in 2002, the two-hundredth anniversary of Abel's birth. Atle Selberg received an honorary Abel Prize in 2002, but the first actual Abel Prize was awarded in 2003.[11][12]
A book series presenting Abel Prize laureates and their research was commenced in 2010. The first three volumes cover the years 2003–2007, 2008–2012, and 2013–2017 respectively.[13][14][15]
In 2019, Karen Uhlenbeck became the first woman to win the Abel Prize, with the award committee citing "the fundamental impact of her work on analysis, geometry and mathematical physics.[16] The Bernt Michael Holmboe Memorial Prize was created in 2005. Named after Abel's teacher, it promotes excellence in teaching.[17]
Selection criteria and funding
Anyone may submit a nomination for the Abel Prize, although self-nominations are not permitted. The nominee must be alive. If the awardee dies after being declared the winner, the prize will be awarded posthumously.
The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters declares the winner of the Abel Prize each March after recommendation by the Abel Committee, which consists of five leading mathematicians. Both Norwegians and non-Norwegians may serve on the Committee. They are elected by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and nominated by the International Mathematical Union and the European Mathematical Society.[11][18] As of 2022[update], the committee is chaired by Norwegian mathematician Helge Holden[19] and before then was headed by Hans Munthe Kaas, John Rognes, Ragni Piene, Kristian Seip, and Erling Stormer.[20]
Funding
The Norwegian Government gave the prize an initial funding of NOK 200 million (about €21.7 million[21]) in 2001. Previously, the funding came from the Abel foundation, but today the prize is financed directly through the national budget.
The funding is controlled by the Board, which consists of members elected by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.[18] The current board consists of Ingrid K. Glad (chair), Aslak Bakke Buan, Helge K. Dahle, Kristin Vinje, Cordian Riener and Gunn Elisabeth Birkelund.[22]
Laureates
Year | Laureate(s) | Image | Institution(s) | Citation |
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2003 | Jean-Pierre Serre | Collège de France | "For playing a key role in shaping the modern form of many parts of mathematics, including topology, algebraic geometry and number theory."[23] | |
2004 | Michael Atiyah | University of Edinburgh | "For their discovery and proof of the index theorem, bringing together topology, geometry and analysis, and their outstanding role in building new bridges between mathematics and theoretical physics."[24] | |
Isadore Singer | Massachusetts Institute of Technology University of California, Berkeley | |||
2005 | Peter Lax | Courant Institute (NYU) | "For his groundbreaking contributions to the theory and application of partial differential equations and to the computation of their solutions."[25] | |
2006 | Lennart Carleson | Royal Institute of Technology
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"For his profound and seminal contributions to harmonic analysis and the theory of smooth dynamical systems."[26] | |
2007 | S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan | Courant Institute (NYU) | "For his fundamental contributions to probability theory and in particular for creating a unified theory of large deviation."[27] | |
2008 | John G. Thompson | University of Florida | "For their profound achievements in algebra and in particular for shaping modern group theory."[28] | |
Jacques Tits | Collège de France | |||
2009 | Mikhail Gromov
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Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques[29] and Courant Institute (NYU)[30] | "For his revolutionary contributions to geometry."[31] | |
2010 | John Tate | University of Texas at Austin | "For his vast and lasting impact on the theory of numbers."[32] | |
2011 | John Milnor | Stony Brook University | "For pioneering discoveries in topology, geometry, and algebra."[33] | |
2012 | Endre Szemerédi | Alfréd Rényi Institute and Rutgers University | "For his fundamental contributions to discrete mathematics and theoretical computer science, and in recognition of the profound and lasting impact of these contributions on additive number theory and ergodic theory."[34] | |
2013 | Pierre Deligne | Institute for Advanced Study | "For seminal contributions to algebraic geometry and for their transformative impact on number theory, representation theory, and related fields."[35] | |
2014 | Yakov Sinai | Princeton University and Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics[36] | "For his fundamental contributions to dynamical systems, ergodic theory, and mathematical physics."[37] | |
2015 | John F. Nash Jr. | Princeton University | "For striking and seminal contributions to the theory of nonlinear partial differential equations and its applications to geometric analysis."[38] | |
Louis Nirenberg | Courant Institute (NYU) | |||
2016 | Andrew Wiles | University of Oxford[39][40] | "For his stunning proof of Fermat's Last Theorem by way of the modularity conjecture for semistable elliptic curves, opening a new era in number theory."[41] | |
2017 | Yves Meyer | École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay | "For his pivotal role in the development of the mathematical theory of wavelets."[42] | |
2018 | Robert Langlands | Institute for Advanced Study | "For his visionary program connecting representation theory to number theory."[43] | |
2019 | Karen Uhlenbeck | University of Texas at Austin | "For her pioneering achievements in geometric partial differential equations, integrable systems, and for the fundamental impact of her work on analysis, geometry and mathematical physics."[44]
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2020 | Hillel Furstenberg | Hebrew University of Jerusalem | "For pioneering the use of methods from probability and dynamics in group theory, number theory and combinatorics."[45] | |
Grigory Margulis | Yale University | |||
2021 | László Lovász | Eötvös Loránd University | "For their foundational contributions to theoretical computer science and discrete mathematics, and their leading role in shaping them into central fields of modern mathematics".[46] | |
Avi Wigderson | Institute for Advanced Study | |||
2022 | Dennis Sullivan | The Graduate Center, CUNY
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"For his groundbreaking contributions to topology in its broadest sense, and in particular its algebraic, geometric and dynamical aspects."[47] | |
2023 | Luis Caffarelli | University of Texas at Austin | "For his seminal contributions to regularity theory for nonlinear partial differential equations including free-boundary problems and the Monge–Ampère equation."[48] | |
2024 | Michel Talagrand | Centre national de la recherche scientifique | "For his groundbreaking contributions to probability theory and functional analysis, with outstanding applications in mathematical physics and statistics."[49] |
See also
- Fields Medal
- List of prizes known as the Nobel of a field
- List of mathematics awards
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External links
- Official website
- Official website of the Abel Symposium
- Barile, Margherita & Weisstein, Eric W. "Abel Prize". MathWorld.